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| Name | Transit NXT Professional+ | Lokally.io |
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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.
Read more reviews → | Worth to try I am a translation students and I found this tool online to translate my documents. The results are generated so fast and precise to I highly recommend this tool for other students like me
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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. | This app is a global machine translation tool based in Vietnam that is made to help translators optimize the whole translation process and generate results at fast speed and high quality. We aim to provide convenient translation because Lokally.io can be:
- FAST: Translate multiple files at the same time and translate multiple languages for one file at once in less than 10 seconds and the accuracy is up to 90%.
- FLEXIBLE: Translate documents in common file formats (word, pdf, xlsx, pdf) to 111 languages in the world.
- CHEAP: For any new sign-in, users will receive 3000 FREE words immediately to their balance.
- EASY: Lokally.io is a user-friendly tool suitable for translators at all levels. Users don’t need to be tech masters to use this tool.
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| Price | Options include 3, 6, 12 month and perpetual options starting at €240 | Users will be received 3000 words FREE every month. In case translators need more words to translate, Lokally.io provides various word packages that users can choose to purchase 1, 2 or more packages. |
| File formats | No data | Lokally.io supports 4 common file types: Microsoft Excel Open XML Spreadsheet (XLSX), WORD, Portable documents format (PDF), Power Point (PPT) |
| License type | Perpetual | Software as a service (subscription) |
| Operating system | Windows | Windows, MacOS, Linux, Other, Android, Apple iOS |
| System requirements | 200 MHz Processor, 1 GB RAM, 250 MB Hard drive & 1280 x 1024 SVGA Graphics card | This tool is a online machine translation. With Internet connection, users can use this tool everywhere and every time even at midnight |
| Compatibility | Transit NXT product brief | No data |
| Support and upgrades offered/included | Free upgrades for duration of license/Subscription | Free technical support via support ticket center, N/A - Software is free |
| Support and tutorial links | No data | https://help.lokally.io/ or you can send us questions to [email protected] for more detailed support |
| Free trial | No data | Lokally.io users have 3000 FREE words every month |
| Languages supported | Transit NXT product brief | Lokally.io is able to support translating to 111 languages worldwide. |
