A production step for LSPs
Machine pre-translation with enforced and machine-verified terminology — as a supplied step in your existing workflow.
Trados · memoQ · Phrase · XTM.
The process is language-agnostic: terminology enforcement, tag parity, byte integrity and the verification report are mechanical and apply to any language combination. Measured figures exist across 10 language pairs; other languages on request.
Contact starts by email — files and quotes then run through the client portal.
Scope
I am not a translation provider for your projects. I accept no translation or post-editing assignments from clients for whom I supply this production step, and I do not work for end clients. Your linguistic layer remains yours.
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Four familiar failure points
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How it works
Quoted from the delivery report
“This is the picture your data paints — preserved byte for byte, except for what we were allowed to change: the text of the target segments, and only the text.”
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The terminology guarantee
“Your terminology is enforced verbatim and verified by machine — including your typos. That is precisely the guarantee.”
Generic MT and AI systems apply terminology statistically: mostly right, and unpredictably often not. Here it is applied mechanically, and every single occurrence is verified. The behaviour is therefore deterministic and auditable — not likely, but demonstrable.
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Honest numbers
Typical range depending on language pair, text type and TM depth: 50–79 % unchanged.
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Test package
A test package says more than this page.
Send one real file with your terminology. You get the pre-translation and its verification report back, and can hold both against your own standard.
Access is set up when a project starts.
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Data protection
I will answer your data-protection review directly. Ask something concrete. Data protection in detail →
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Pricing
Billing covers segments without a TM match, from your own threshold upwards. Your analysis is the basis; an independent recount is made before delivery and reported in the verification report, not invoiced retroactively.
| Item | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Base fee per delivery package | package | €45.00 |
| Pre-translation, 1–250 segments | segment | €0.65 |
| Pre-translation, 251–1,000 | segment | €0.55 |
| Pre-translation, 1,001–5,000 | segment | €0.45 |
| Pre-translation, 5,001 and above | segment | €0.38 |
| Repetitions | segment | €0.12 |
| Verification only (pre-translated elsewhere) | segment | €0.15 |
| Setting up a new format chain | one-off | €250.00 |
- The tier follows the total number of billable segments in the job.
- Setup is credited against the first 2,000 segments.
- All prices in EUR, net. Payment terms 30 days. As a supplier established outside the EU, I invoice without VAT; the reverse-charge procedure applies (VAT accounted for by the recipient).
If a delivery cannot be reimported, it is not invoiced.