HOW TO CONNECT FOUR POPULAR MTs TO TRADOS STUDIO 2021™ AND MEMOQ TRANSLATOR PRO 9.8™
The biggest challenge is to combine technology and the human side without losing the latter — Gordana Antonijević, Head of Translation Unit, Veris
1. INTRODUCTION
2. How to set up Trados Studio 2021™ plugins
3. How to set up Memoq Translator Pro 9.8™ plugins
4. How to obtain API keys for MT plugins
5. References
1. INTRODUCTION
Machine Translation (MT) technology allows you to automatically translate your text from one language to another. Both Trados Studio 2021™ and memoQ translator pro 9.8™ use plugins to connect to machine translation engine vendors. This manual provides information as to how to obtain API keys from MT vendors and enter them into the plugins.
Disclaimer
Information contained herein is valid as of October 1st, 2021. Due to frequent changes in user interfaces utilized by MT vendors this information may become obsolete after that date without advance notice. Revision 1.0.
1.1 MT vendors described
This manual shows how to obtain APIs to the following MTs:
| MT name |
Advantages |
Disadvantages |
Cost |
| Google Cloud Translation Basic (or Google Translate API v2) |
best-known vendor, numerous language pairs available |
quality differs per language pair, very complicated set-up |
paid service with a free quota |
| DeepL |
very high quality, easy set-up |
limited number of language pairs |
paid service with a free trial |
| Amazon Translate (AWS) |
numerous language pairs available |
quality differs per language pair, complicated set-up |
paid service with a free quota |
| Modern MT |
high-quality vendor, easy set-up |
limited number of language pairs |
paid service with adaptive functions in a basic plan |
1.2 Privacy
More information on how the MT vendors listed in Point 1.1 of this manual process your data is available from:
2. How to set up Trados Studio 2021™ plugins
3. How to set up Memoq Translator Pro 9.8™ plugins
4. How to obtain API keys for MT plugins
5. References
- https://docs.memoq.com/current/en/Places/modernmt-settings.html, accessed on 29/09/2021
- https://helpcenter.memoq.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019498179-How-to-set-up-the-DeepL-MT-plugin, accessed on 27/09/2021
- https://blog.api.rakuten.net/api-tutorial-google-translate-api/, accessed on 28/09/2021
- https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/openexchange_applications/27164/deepl-plugin-not-working, accessed on 25/09/2021
- https://helpcenter.memoq.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010267380-Installing-Google-Translate-API-plugin-in-memoQ, accessed on 29/09/2021
- https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/trados-live/30935/google-translate-api—how-to-activate-in-sdl-trados-live, accessed on 29/09/2021
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/translate/latest/dg/API_Reference.html, accessed on 28/09/2021
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/translate/latest/dg/translate-dg.pdf, accessed on 27/09/2021
- https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/machine.html#aws, accessed on 30/09/2021
- https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/w/customer-experience/3315/amazon-translate-mt-provider, accessed on 28/09/2021
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html, accessed on 30/09/2021
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-files.html, accessed on 30/09/2021
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-quickstart.html, accessed on 29/09/2021
- https://www.deepl.com/pl/pro/change-plan#team, accessed on 30/09/2021
- https://translatepress.com/docs/automatic-translation/generate-google-api-key/, accessed on 28/09/2021
- https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/openexchange_applications/30609/google-translate-api-not-available-in-sdl-trados-2021?ReplySortBy=CreatedDate&ReplySortOrder=Ascending, accessed on 26/09/2021
- https://gateway.sdl.com/apex/communityknowledge?articleName=000005906, accessed on 25/09/2021
- https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/api-keys#creating_an_api_key, accessed on 29/09/2021
- https://www.modernmt.com/api/#introduction, accessed on 27/09/2021
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KHq094SeWU, accessed on 26/09/2021
- https://www.deepl.com/pl/pro-tool_integration.html, accessed on 27/09/2021
- https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/one/short-sentences, accessed on 26/09/2021
- https://modernmt-website.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/ModernMT+Plugin+Guide+for+SDL+Trados+Studio.pdf, accessed on 28/09/2021
- https://docs.memoq.com/ggl-tst/Places/mt-settings.html, accessed on 29/09/2021