Tomedes Launches New Pre-Translation Toolkit that Helps Prevent Quality Issues Upfront

Getting ready to translate can be just as important as the translation itself. The preparation phase is where you lay the groundwork for accurate, culturally nuanced, and consistent translations. With the Tomedes Pre-Translation Toolkit, you now have a one-stop solution to streamline all your pre-translation process, ensuring your projects are set up for success right from the start.

Currently in its alpha testing phase, the Pre-Translation Dashboard is being thoroughly tested by Tomedes’ internal teams for quality assurance (QA) and continuous improvement. Here’s a detailed look at what makes this new tool a must-have for translators and businesses alike.

What Is the Tomedes Pre-Translation Dashboard?

The Tomedes Pre-Translation Dashboard is a unified platform that brings together insights from several specialized pre-translation tools. If you’re looking to streamline your translation projects, this dashboard is designed to simplify the preparation process.

Key features

The Pre-Translation Dashboard offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to streamline and enhance your content preparation process, making it easier to achieve high-quality translations.

1. Language detection

Automatically identify the source text language to ensure accurate handling and compatibility with the desired target language. This feature eliminates guesswork and saves time in multilingual projects.

2. Domain identification

Determine the subject area or field of your content, such as legal, medical, or technical, to guide appropriate tone, style, and terminology usage, ensuring a professional and relevant final translation.

3. Quality issues checker

Analyze your source text for readability concerns, cultural nuances, and technical jargon that may impact translation quality. This proactive approach highlights areas that need adjustment or clarification.

4. Contextual glossary

Automatically extract and compile essential terms and phrases from the source text, creating a reliable reference for maintaining consistency and accuracy throughout the translation process. Additionally, it provides a short definition for each key term identified, offering translators valuable context and ensuring precise usage.

5. Difficulty checker

Evaluate the complexity of your content and receive recommendations on the most suitable translation method—whether human translation, MTPE, raw machine translation, or transcreation—tailored to the text's specific needs.

6. Style guide integration

Create a simple style guide to help translators maintain the overall style and tone of the source text, ensuring the final translation is polished, consistent, and aligned with the intended audience and organizational standards..

By combining these features into a single, user-friendly interface, the Pre-Translation Dashboard empowers users with actionable insights and practical tools to prepare content for successful translation, saving time and reducing errors. It’s an essential resource for anyone working in multilingual communication, offering all the support needed to deliver consistent, culturally sensitive, and professional translations.

How the dashboard benefits you

The Pre-Translation Dashboard is more than just a collection of tools; it’s a comprehensive solution that ensures you’re fully prepared before you even start translating. Here’s how it can make a difference in your translation workflow:

1. Avoiding translation quality issues from the start

Accurate translation begins with thorough preparation. By using tools like the Contextual Glossary and Source Text Checker, you can ensure that your final translations are more consistent and culturally appropriate. For instance, spotting potential cultural nuances or problematic terminology early on means fewer surprises and higher-quality translations.

2. Save time with unified reports

Instead of manually running multiple tools and cross-referencing results, the Pre-Translation Dashboard provides you with a unified report. This saves hours of pre-translation work, allowing you to get started faster and reducing the overall project timeline.

3. Simplify complex projects

When dealing with complex projects, it’s easy to lose track of key terminology or important sections that require special attention. The Pre-Translation Dashboard helps you break down content into its main components, enabling you to focus on the most critical aspects and organize your workflow efficiently. Results can be downloaded, copied, and even shared through a unique URL, ensuring seamless collaboration. Additionally, all data is processed on secure servers, providing peace of mind that your information remains protected.

What’s currently excluded?

The Pre-Translation Dashboard is a work in progress, and as such, not all tools are included in this alpha version. Currently, the following tools are excluded:

1. Text Summarizer

2. Word Count Ratio

3. Data Anonymization Tool

These features are still in development and may be added in future versions as we gather user feedback and refine the dashboard further.

The alpha testing phase: Ensuring quality and performance

This alpha release is currently available to Tomedes’ internal teams for testing and quality assurance. We are using this phase to identify any bugs, refine the user experience, and ensure that the dashboard’s features are both reliable and user-friendly.

Key focus areas in alpha testing

• User Experience: Ensuring that the dashboard is intuitive and easy to navigate.

• Performance Metrics: Testing how the dashboard handles large files and complex content.

• Accuracy and Reliability: Making sure that the tools provide meaningful, accurate insights that can be trusted by users.

The insights gathered during alpha testing will drive continuous improvements to make the dashboard as efficient and effective as possible.

Looking ahead: What’s next?

Beta testing and public launch

After the alpha phase, we plan to invite select users for beta testing. This will be a key step in ensuring the tool is optimized for a variety of real-world applications and workflows. Once we’ve gathered enough feedback and made the necessary improvements, we’ll be ready for a full public launch.

Continuous updates

The Pre-Translation Dashboard is an evolving tool, and our commitment to providing you with the best possible translation solutions means we’ll continue to update it based on user needs and technological advancements.

How to use the Tomedes Pre-Translation Dashboard

Here's a quick guide to effortlessly use the dashboard and start optimizing your pre-translation workflow. Check out this sample: link

1. Upload Your Text: Begin by uploading your source text or pasting it directly into the input field on the dashboard.

2. Run the Analysis: Click the "Generate report" button to let the dashboard process your content and generate actionable insights.

3. Review Results: Access a comprehensive report highlighting language, domain, key terms (with definitions), potential quality issues, and translation method recommendations.

4. Download or Share: Download the results, copy them, or share via a unique URL for collaboration. Rest assured, all data is processed securely.

5. Refine Your Content: Use the insights provided to optimize your source text for accurate, consistent, and culturally appropriate translations.

Conclusion

The Tomedes Pre-Translation Dashboard is your ultimate tool for optimizing the preparation phase of translation projects. It provides a unified report with insights from various pre-translation tools. This helps streamline your process, improve translation quality, and shorten project timelines.

As we work to enhance the Pre-Translation Dashboard, your feedback is invaluable in shaping its future. When beta testing begins, your insights will help us make the tool even more effective and user-friendly. Have suggestions or questions? We’d love to hear from you! In the meantime, feel free to explore our other free AI translation tools.

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