The Outlook Addin links to the Instant Translation tool which is part of the Wordbee Translator client portal. Instant Translation is a web interface where users upload files to obtain gist translations.
To activate the service for your users, some customization is required:
- The source and target languages made available.
- The type of files that can be translated, as well as how content is translated.
- Any translation memories to use for pretranslation (typically these would be specific per your customer).
- The machine translation system to use.
- Options for post-editing
These settings are grouped in, what we call, an Instant Translation form. Once a form is created you assign it to corporate or client users. From then on these users can request translation from Outlook. You can create as many forms as you like, such as one per client. This is indeed necessary if you want to configure client specific translation memories.
Instant Translation settings
- Login to Wordbee Translator as administrator.
- Click Settings in the top navigation menu.
- Select Instant Translation (MT Plus)
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The existing forms are listed:
You can add new or edit existing forms from this page. The View clients link shows if a form is assigned to a company, the pre-requisite for users to use the Outlook Addin.
Configure forms
Each form has a wide range of parameters.
Name and description
In the top you can name your form, add an internal description and even include a message for your clients (not visible from Outlook, online only).
Translation options
This is optional. If there is more than one option, the Outlook or online user can choose one. All subsequent settings such as memories, files or MT can be configured individually per option.
Options are useful if, for example, your client translates technical and marketing content and you want to activate different memories or MT systems respectively. Your options could then be named "Technical" and "Marketing".
Memory pre-translation
Optionally add any memories to be used for pre-translation. This takes place prior to machine translation.
You can add memories of any language combination. The system will always use those compatible with the translation request.
Machine translation
Choose a machine translation system. Also see this page on enabling MT systems.
File formats
Choose the file formats that a user can translate:
Per enabled format choose the text extraction rules to apply. The rules define how and which text is extracted for translation.
For some formats such as XML or JSON, you need to be careful to set the rules to your specific client requirements.
You can also define multiple rules per format:
Now, if the user translates a Word document he is given the choice for "Default" or "No red text".
Other settings
There are some other less used settings. The post editing options, if enabled, lets users submit the gist translation to your translation team for linguistic enhancement.