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Thread poster: Christiane Hinsch (X)
Christiane Hinsch (X)
Christiane Hinsch (X)  Identity Verified
United States
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English to German
May 11, 2007

Hi, I am just getting started as a translator in the U.S. Since I can't afford to buy expensive software right now, is there anything on the market that is priced reasonably, if not inexpensive? Thanks !
 
Uldis Liepkalns
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Latvia
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English to Latvian
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You might want to try out MemoQ May 11, 2007

presented on Budapest Conference. Its TM is Trados compatible (the same format when exported).

I haven't tried it out myself yet (though I saw presentation and demo on Conference and liked the interface very much), but few of our translators have and the feedback is the very best.

http://www.kilgray.com/kilgray/products/memoq/try#demo

(AFAIK, demo version never expires, limitation is that it is not upgradeable).

Uldis

ChHinsch wrote:

Hi, I am just getting started as a translator in the U.S. Since I can't afford to buy expensive software right now, is there anything on the market that is priced reasonably, if not inexpensive? Thanks !


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Heinrich Pesch
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Finland
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Finnish to German
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Wordfast, Metatexis May 12, 2007

Both are free with certain restrictions, and the license is only less than 200 Euro. No problem, I have Trados and SDLX, but use Wordfast most of the time.
Cheers
Heinrich
 
Marc P (X)
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German to English
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OmegaT May 12, 2007

www.omegat.org.

Truly "free" - not a demo version, not a "lite" version, no crippled functionality, no limitation on how long you can use it. As of this morning, used by 897 ProZ members.

Marc
 
Mulyadi Subali
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omegat - seconded May 12, 2007

free and portable. nuff said.
 
Vito Smolej
Vito Smolej
Germany
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English to Slovenian
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OmegaT is a candidate as well May 13, 2007

GPL-licenced (i.e. free)

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Word-Processing/OmegaT.shtml

see also discussion group as well on yahoo:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/OmegaT/
 


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