Translation memory
Translation memory stops you paying twice for the same sentence, and lets a reviewer reuse a phrasing the team already agreed on.
Translation memory works in two ways, and the difference matters.
Exact matches
When the exact same source text has been translated before, transglot reuses that translation at no cost instead of translating it again. This happens automatically during every translation run, and adding a language can fill strings from memory straight away.
Exact-match reuse draws on an anonymised, shared pool as well as your own workspace's history. You can turn that off per project with the Translation memory setting under the project's AI translation settings. With it off, the project neither reads from nor adds to the pool, and every string is translated fresh.
Reused words show up as Words reused at $0 on your dashboard, and the project's AI translation settings show how many words the project reused this month.
Similar matches
transglot also finds previously reviewed translations of similar text and offers them as suggestions. A similar match is only ever a suggestion; it is never written to your project automatically.
In the editor, similar matches appear in the context panel under Similar approved translations, where a translator can insert one with a keyboard shortcut. The same matches also guide Glossa, so a new translation comes out phrased consistently with the ones you already approved.
Similar matches come from Semantic translation memory, a project setting that is off by default and available on Team and above. Two further settings tune it:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Minimum match | How close a match must be before it is shown, or Exact only. A legal project may want nothing under 95%; a marketing one may be glad of 75%. |
| Match sources | Where matches may come from: All projects here (every project in the workspace) or This project only, when one project's reviewed work should not surface in another client's. |
Similar matches only ever come from your own workspace's reviewed translations.
Searching past translations
The editor's context panel also lets you search past translations by phrase, to check how a term was translated before.
Who can change these settings
Admins of the workspace and Owners of its account, on the project's AI translation settings page. See AI translation settings.