Selecting Machine Translation Options

Wordfast Pro includes an automated Machine Translation (MT) feature which populates translations whenever a file is open or when there are no Translation Memory segment matches.

To enable Machine Translation and select options, navigate to Preferences then Machine Translation as described below.

  1. Open Wordfast Pro and click Preferences under Options.

    The overall preferences setup panel appears.

    Figure 1. Preferences

  2. Click Machine Translation.

    The Machine Translation options appear.

  3. Select one of the following:

    • Perform when there is no TM match, to show machine translated content when there are no match segments.

    • Always perform Machine Translation, to show machine translated content when a segment is leveraged. TM matches appear in TM Lookup with the MT matches.

  4. Select check boxes to allow all unedited segments in active document to be leveraged with MT, and to remove MT score from score column when segment is edited.
  5. Select GoogleTranslator, Microsoft Translate, or WorldLingo as primary machine translator. GoogleTranslator, Microsoft Translate, and WorldLingo can all be enabled at one time, but only one can be selected as primary machine translator.
  6. Select the options for each machine translator, and perform any additional tasks as required by the machine translator.

    Translator

    Options

    Enable Google Translator

    Enable Microsoft Translator

    Enable WorldLingo

    Languages are limited. Refer to WorldLingo Languages.
  7. Read the disclaimer carefully.
  8. Click OK.
Parent topic: Translation Preferences