AI: Savings in translation and technical documentation

26 rail transport l services l production support ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: SAVINGS IN TRANSLATION COSTS AND THE PREPARATION OF TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION More and more companies look for cost-saving packages to reduce the costs of translation and the localisation of technical documents and marketing materials, both into foreign languages or into Czech. Some of them try to hire cheaper translators or agencies, but it is evident that lower price often results in lower quality. With such fierce competition, companies cannot afford to offer products with poor-quality literature, as this has a direct and very significant impact on customer satisfaction leading to poor product merchantability. The solution is to find a way to translate/localise texts both in high quality and effectively. special 2020 T+T Technika a trh In western countries, software support has been used to translate technical documents and other commercial materials (e.g. catalogues, leaflets, and manuals) for many years. This is called Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) and aims to streamline and improve professional translators' work using translation memory, fuzzy logic, and terminology management functionalities. Using this software, translators can translate 30 to 70% more than the usual 8-10 pages per day, while maintaining the high quality of translation (or even increasing it using advanced quality control functions). Pioneers in the use of CAT software include BMW, which has been using this software to localise user and service manuals into 27 languages for a quarter of a century. According to a representative at their German headquarters, the company achieves savings amounting to hundreds of thousands