Freelancers like myself often collaborate in teams, when they need to subcontract parts of large projects or to offer services in different languages. This in turn means you have to streamline communications and find ways to collaborate effectively on multiple platforms. And of course, you need the best possible apps for translation.
Translators routinely use the Office suite and video conferencing, but several other apps have proven quite useful:
The Phrase SaaS operates as a cloud-based translation platform, accessible through virtually any browser, from anywhere. Phrase accommodates various file formats*, enabling collaborative work and utilizing past translations. It retrieves previously translated sentences, facilitating their reuse, resulting in cost savings for our clients.
Additionally, Phrase integrates an internal glossary, allowing for the seamless implementation of preferred client terminology—particularly beneficial when working in teams.
Moreover, this platform hosts an advanced translation engine capable of selecting the best translation approach for a given text and pre-translating it in nearly any combination (machine translation or MT). This process, known as MTPE (machine translation with post-editing), allows translators to utilize suggested translations and refine them, ensuring accuracy and readability. For certain texts, this technique can offer substantial savings. Read more about this in the Q&A page.
* .doc, .docx, .dot, .dotx, .docm, .dotm, .rtf, .ppt, .pptx, .pot, .potx, .pptm, .potm, .xls, .xlsx, .xlt, .xltx, .xlsm, .xltm, .asciidoc, .adoc, .asc.htm, .html, .idml, .icml, .mif (version 8 and above only), .psd, .svg, .ttx (pre-segmented), .sdlxliff, .xml, .xhtm, .xhtml, Android .xml, .mxliff, .xliff (1.2),.xliff (2.0), .xliff for Drupal/WordPress, mqxliff (MemoQ xliff), tmx, .dita, .ditamap. md, .markdown, .catkeys, .csv, (Magento).csv, DocBook (.dbk), .desktop, (Mozilla).DTD, .epub, (Joomla).ini, .json, .arb (import as JSON), .lang, .Plist, .po, .properties, (Java).properties, .rc, .resx, .srt, .strings, .sbv, .sub (SubViewer only), .ts, .txt, .vtt, .wiki, .yaml, .tag, .xtg, .zip