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| Name | Wordfast Pro 5 | Lilt |
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| Most helpful review | Huge time saver Wordfast Pro 5 is a standalone CAT tool that is compatible in my experience with Word, Powerpoint, InDesign and most other office software programs.
I work on a mac system and it is perfectly compatible.
I also need to use Trados for one client, but consistently use Wordfast Pro 5 for all others because of how easy and practical it is.
Highly recommended! And a training session to get you started is also highly recommended, to get the most out of it. 5 out of 5 found this review helpful.
Read more reviews → | Worst CAT tool I have ever tested This platform is not compatible with complex documents with tags, it is time-consuming and tedious to use, if you think consistency and typography is important in your work.
It is sometimes plainly absurd, why on earth would I like the cursor to jump to the end of the segment when I use a non-breaking space in the middle of a segment?
Be careful if you are asked to work on Lilt at half-price because it will take twice the time to work on it, while training their awful MT output and being super slow.
The "TM" does not populate perfect matches and is not case sensitive (really) you have to retype it with there predictive output which is not the same each time. Here it is for the consistency.
It's not easily compatible with basic QA check tools.
Oh, and if you delete a file, the TM gets deleted as well, because who needs to keep a TM after the file is translated, am I right ?21 out of 21 found this review helpful.
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| Product description | Wordfast Pro is the latest version of the standalone, multi-platform TM tool designed to address the needs of translators, language service providers and multinational corporations.
| A CAT tool that learns the way you translate. Features predictive typing and the world's first commercial machine translation system that learns in real-time while you work. Based on Stanford research. Try it now for free. |
| Price | $460 | Free Trial; Pro version coming in mid-2016 |
| File formats | Virtually any file format, including MS Office, Adobe InDesign, FrameMaker, PDF, HTML, XML, SDL Trados Xliff, MemoQ Xliff, and more | MS Office 2007+, XLIFF, SDLXLIFF, TXT, HTML, XML, TXML, IDML |
| License type | 3-year license | Software as a service (subscription) |
| Operating system | Windows, MacOS, Linux | Windows, MacOS, Linux |
| System requirements | Minimum: Intel or AMD CPU-based computer manufactured after 2013, 4 GB of System Memory, and Screen Resolution of 1366 x 768 | A modern browser: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and/or Internet Explorer 11+ |
| Compatibility | *Install dependencies to run Wordfast on Linux OS typically ‘sudo apt install libconf2-4’ or ‘sudo apt-get install –f’ or ‘yum install libX*’" | Runs in the browser |
| Support and upgrades offered/included | Free upgrades for duration of license/Subscription | Free technical support via support ticket center, Free updates, but not upgrades |
| Support and tutorial links | Online support center | http://lilt.com/ |
| Free trial | Yes, 30 days of fully-functional trial available. Unlimited use of a demo version. | Yes |
| Languages supported | All languages. | English↔Spanish, English↔French, and English↔German |
