Poll: What is your biggest frustration with modern Translation Management Systems (TMS) and CAT tools? Користувач, який розмістив тему: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | Lieven Malaise 
Бельгія
Local time: 16:48
Член (2020)
французька --> Нідерландська
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My biggest frustration is the shift to subscription models of software in general. It apparently makes a good reason to shamelessly double, triple or even quadruple prices compared to eternal licenses.
| | | | Sebastian Witte
Німеччина
Local time: 16:48
Член (2004)
англійська --> німецька
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1. Paying fees for minor incremental updates. (Or rather, what Lieven said).
2. Laggy platforms. (We do not use browser-based editors when working in our own CAT tool).
3. AI features forced into them. (However, these can easily be ignored.)
Even so, we're 100% faster than when working with no CAT tool.
| | | | Li-Hsiang Hsu
Франція
Local time: 16:48
французька --> Китайська
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| Complexity and inconsisitency - an example of XTM | Jul 29 |
There are at least three to five ways to connect to XTM to manage tasks, translations, and invoicing; such complexity, cumbersomeness, and lack of consistency do not reflect high-performance engineering, but rather sheer incompetence.
And its TM and concordance research barely work well.
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Luis M. Sosa
Еквадор
Local time: 09:48
англійська --> Іспанська
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Question is for both PMs and translators. But I guess only translators will show up here.
I have the impression that I already have said this in a previous related poll.
With respect to CAT tools, large projects (>15k with large TMs) turn them to virtual elephants. QA checks also become quite slow or nightmarish, and, believe me, it does not depend on the internet connection speed. Could give 3 names, but it might sound incorrect.
| | | | Zea_Mays
Італія
Local time: 16:48
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Luis M. Sosa wrote:
With respect to CAT tools, large projects (>15k with large TMs) turn them to virtual elephants. QA checks also become quite slow or nightmarish, and, believe me, it does not depend on the internet connection speed. Could give 3 names, but it might sound incorrect.
Ah, this touches a sensitive point! I often have to dismiss hundreds of false postives, and if you don't know how to do this in bulk, it can really drive you mad and cost a lot of time.
In a recent project with various 10ks words I asked the client to disable the live QA as it was slowing the editor page to prehistoric speed.
A very weak point in current CAT tools is surely the use of AI for translation. So far, none of them could beat trained neural engines, meaning you'll have tons of inconsistencies, ignored glossaries and TMs etc. etc. (AI bots do not remember things for longer periods.) I just hope that AI subscriptions will become so costly in the near term that these gimmics will disappear very soon!
[Bearbeitet am 2026-07-30 07:06 GMT]
| | | | Li-Hsiang Hsu
Франція
Local time: 16:48
французька --> Китайська
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| Stupid AI QA checks | 07:23 |
While I am quite OK with AI translation, which makes postediting rather like proofreading with somehow more mindful checks, I am really annoyed with so many stupid AI QA checks, which unnecessarily waste much time. In the end, I don't think AI saves us a lot of time.
[Edited at 2026-07-30 07:24 GMT]
| | | | Dan Lucas
Велика Британія
Local time: 15:48
Член (2014)
Японська --> англійська
Zea_Mays wrote:
Ah, this touches a sensitive point! I often have to dismiss hundreds of false postives, and if you don't know how to do this in bulk, it can really drive you mad and cost a lot of time.
Now, imagine that same problem but exacerbated by the fact that you're dealing with a CJK source language, where things like unit numbers (units of ten thousand, hundred million, etc.) are different to those used in English. Neither Trados nor Phrase have sensible support for this kind of thing - I had to create my own tools to deal with these issues, and many others.
Dan
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Zea_Mays
Італія
Local time: 16:48
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Dan Lucas wrote:
Zea_Mays wrote:
Ah, this touches a sensitive point! I often have to dismiss hundreds of false postives, and if you don't know how to do this in bulk, it can really drive you mad and cost a lot of time.
Now, imagine that same problem but exacerbated by the fact that you're dealing with a CJK source language, where things like unit numbers (units of ten thousand, hundred million, etc.) are different to those used in English. Neither Trados nor Phrase have sensible support for this kind of thing - I had to create my own tools to deal with these issues, and many others.
Dan
You'd think that's basics any CAT tool should be able to handle. Curious about your tools... In Phrase, I ended up sorting all QA flags by category or comment, marking all identical ones like in excel (mark the first entry, hold the shift key and mark the last entry) and then selecting Ignore on one of them. Gone they are! Of course, this QA madness risks to let you overlook real issues, but that's the price (I do some random checks among the flags, though).
(Glad to see you in the forums again, I think you have been greatly missed by quite some people here! )
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