Configure Machine Translation

The Machine Translation (MT) preference provides an automated action to populate the target segments with translations that have no translation memory (TM) segment matches.

To configure a machine translation engine:

  1. Select Preferences from the Wordfast drop-down menu.
  2. On the resulting Preferences dialog, click Machine Translation under General Preferences.
  3. Select one of the following:
    • Show MT results in TM Lookup when there is no TM match, to show machine translated content without local or remote TM matches.

    • Always show MT results in TM Lookup, to show machine translated content with leveraged segments. TM matches display in TM Lookup with the MT matches.

  4. Select checkboxes 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 Google Translator, Microsoft Translator, or WorldLingo as the primary machine translator. You can enable all three, but you can only designate as the primary machine translator.
  6. Select MT options for each machine translator, then perform the designated setup tasks associated with each machine translator.
      Note:

    WorldLingo has a limited set of source languages for MT.

    • Arabic

    • Chinese Simplified

    • Chinese Traditional

    • Dutch

    • English

    • French

    • German

    • Greek

    • Italian

    • Japanese

    • Korean

    • Portuguese

    • Russian

    • Spanish

    • Swedish

    Translator

    Options

    Enable Google Translator

    Enable Microsoft Translator

    Enable WorldLingo

    WorldLingo MT has a limited source language set.

  7. Read the disclaimer and click OK.