
THE ROLE OF CAT TOOLS IN THE TRANSLATION PROCESS: WHAT ARE THEY?
CAT tools (Computer Aided Translation” or “Computer Assisted Translation”) are software applications that support the translation of text from one language to another. They assist a human translator in doing their work more quickly and in managing their translation projects. That means CAT tools don’t translate for you. More specifically, CAT tools for translation are used for EDITING, MANAGING, SUBMITTING, CREATING and STORING translations. Today’s CAT tools are mostly cloud