Can Tm-Town be used like locstudio, googletranslator toolkit,sdl trados?

Nurhussen Mohamedsalih Nuru commented on July 21, 2015

If tm-town can not be used like locstudio, google translsator toolkit and other cat tools, why is it so much important?
For storing what I translated previously,I can use google translator toolkit or google drive.
Will please explain for me its unique advantage?

Kevin Dias commented on July 21, 2015

Thanks for your post! I think that TM-Town has some unique advantages:

Your TM-Town profile is generated partially based on the work you load into TM-Town’s system. The more work you load the higher you will appear in TM-Town’s directory. Additionally, TM-Town uses natural language processing techniques to match incoming translation jobs with the best translator. The text of the incoming job is analyzed and compared against the work that has been loaded into the system. If you have loaded similar work you will be matched as the best translator for that job. In other words, clients get matched on the basis of your work, without that work ever being disclosed.
TM-Town allows you to easily backup, search and/or export your work into various formats.
You can search / access any documents you have saved to TM-Town from your CAT tool (currently CafeTran is supported, more coming soon).
TM-Town has some tools to help you easily extract terms and create glossaries from your TMs: https://www.tm-town.com/blog/creating-multilingual-termbase-now-simple-stress-free-process
You can sell terminology glossaries you have created on TM-Town’s Terminology Marketplace: https://www.tm-town.com/terminology-marketplace
You can easily align source and target documents into TMs with TM-Town’s alignment tool: https://www.tm-town.com/blog/alignment-tm-town-way
You can view productivity data from the work you load: https://www.tm-town.com/blog/your-productivity-data-and-what-you-can-learn-from-it
You can redact confidential information from the work you load: https://www.tm-town.com/blog/confidential-information-redactor

TM-Town is not a CAT tool, but I think it has a lot of features that could benefit you as a translator. For more details on some of the different and unique features of TM-Town I would recommend TM-Town’s blog: https://www.tm-town.com/blog.

Kevin

John H commented on March 20, 2025

Thank you, Kevin, for sharing the strengths of TM-Town! Features like job analysis and glossary creation are indeed very helpful for translators. Additionally, if you're looking to relax after a busy workday, you might want to try block blast, an exciting online puzzle game!