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Re: Looking for totally subjective opinions on HATs
Subject:Re: Looking for totally subjective opinions on HATs From:David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:33:55 -0600
Bill,
Perhaps your experience with translation companies differs from mine.
Usually, I have seen translation companies charge for finding changes
and translating them...and most of them do not retain files from
version to version.
Submitting *only* the changed sections as an XML file that is
automatically inserted into the updated docs upon return is far more
efficient, and there is little argument about what work was involved
in the translation.
To give you some idea of how this can pay off, Hewlett Packard has
reported that in the first year following their adoption of a CMS
(Documentum), they saved about $6 Million on localization costs alone.
It should also be noted that in some shops, new kinds of documents may
be prepared that contain bits and pieces from others. If these, too,
must be localized, again it represents a major cost savings.
David
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:29:13 -0500, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I don't see a greater ROI given that all tanslation *should* be
> handled within translation memory and what you'd get out of AIT
> wouldn't directly account for fuzzy matches.
>
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