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| Name | Transit NXT Professional+ | Rian |
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| Most helpful review | Once Top of the Bill I've used Transit for about 15 years. I was once enthusiastic about it, now I think that Transit is no longer up to today's standards.
This tool has always been very expensive to buy. The file format filters are of high quality, but additional filters are expensive too. Other CAT tools offer these additional filters (FrameMaker MIF etc.) for free!
The learning curve is quite steep. The documentation is great.
Transit only supports XLIFF in *one* direction (import), which is quite unacceptable. It missis out on smart editing features like automatic case adaption during Find and Replace, auto-assembling etc. It's not possible to select the whole content of one segment (without defining a macro first) and to perform operations on that selection (like case toggling).
The Access or MS SQL databases that are used to store terminology, respond slow when more than about 500,000 entries are stored. Importing terminology can take a long time.
Support is quite expensive and doesn't always provide a solution.
Transit's tag handling is a real disaster. There are so many tags, many of them grouped, which makes it even harder to insert/move them. It's a dull task to insert the necessary tags. You have to be a keyboard magician, using all kinds of keyboard shortcuts.
By default, you have to overwrite the target text, instead of starting to type in an empty segment. You really have to like that (or not).
Personally, I let my Transit rest in a Virtual Machine and use another tool to process all Transit project files. One that lets me focus on the text at hand, instead on tags.13 out of 13 found this review helpful.
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| Product description | Transit NXT is the next generation of STAR's translation memory system. This new version will offer an optimized solution to make your translation teams even more productive.
Translation Memory in Context: What Makes Transit Different?
The sentence is the basic unit of language. However it is not necessarily the basic unit of meaning. Translators read sentences in the source text, but are only able to do a good job of translating them if they are able to derive and understand their meaning from the context. This is a principle which was taken into account in the first version of Transit, over 20 years ago. In contrast to other translation memory systems, Transit does away with a database which is exclusively sentence based; instead the full breadth of the context contained in a document remains available in the Transit reference material. | Rian is an AI-powered CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool and use of CAT tools makes translation & localization, easier, faster and cost-effective. It empowers all stakeholders like Enterprises, Translation Agencies & Translators. Rian comprises powerful Management functionality with Editor backed by Intelligence layer. |
| Price | Options include 3, 6, 12 month and perpetual options starting at €240 | PAYU (Pay As You Use): 1 Credit in 0.25 INR (approximately 0.0035 USD) 100,000 Credits in 20,000 INR (approximatly 290 USD) |
| File formats | No data | • Microsoft Office Files (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) • Text Files (.rtf, .txt) • Web Pages (.htm, .html) • XML (.xml) • SDL Trados Files (.sdlxliff) • PDF • Adobe Illustrator (.ai) • JS |
| License type | Perpetual | No data |
| Operating system | Windows | Windows, MacOS, Linux |
| System requirements | 200 MHz Processor, 1 GB RAM, 250 MB Hard drive & 1280 x 1024 SVGA Graphics card | Internet Browser (Prefered Google Chrome) with an internet connection |
| Compatibility | Transit NXT product brief | Suggested to use Google Chrome and Mozilla FireFox latest versions |
| Support and upgrades offered/included | Free upgrades for duration of license/Subscription | Free upgrades to all future versions, Free technical support via support ticket center |
| Support and tutorial links | No data | Email Support: [email protected] |
| Free trial | No data | On registration, you will get FREE Rian credits that you can use for the trial purpose. Registration Link: https://cat.rian.io/register |
| Languages supported | Transit NXT product brief | Arabic Assamese Bengali Bulgarian Chinese (Simplified) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Kannad |
