Notes for using Trados

When using Trados, apart from basic price, it also need to pay attention to Fuzzy Match Match (repetition and identical word), Internal Fuzzies Matches and Context Match – (CM).

Some example for rate are as follows:

No.Rep10099-9594-8584-7574-50No Match
13030100100100100100
21010303050100100
3100305070100100
410010203050100

Rate interpretation:

For instance, we have 2 segments “I have a friend” and “I have a pet”. In 2 segments, out of “friend” and “pet”, there are 3 identical (over 4 words) words (I have a). On the other hand, Fuzzy Match (repetition and identical word) is about 75%. Thus rate is selected in the above list of  84-75.

  • Rate No.1 is highest rate. It is when you want to brush up the entire document, to improve the quality of entire document.
  • Rate No.2 and rate No.3 are normal rate. In case of Match 100% (identical up to 100%) rate at No.2 is 10% and No.3 is No pay. There are also some mistakes but 74-50 is rate with payment rate at 100% of price (For example, the price at 300VNĐ/word, price rate at 74-50 is also at 300VNĐ/word), so this rate can be called as a standard rate.
  • Rate No.4 is a rate that does not pay attention to the quality. This is a rate that Trados using translator is recommended not to get any translation contract/requirement.

The change of number of words under rate:

Rep10099-9594-8584-7574-50No MatchTotal
01500100010005005000400013000

At rate No.1:

1500 x 0.3 + 1000 x 1.0 + 1000 x 1.0 + 500 x 1.0 + 5000 x 1.0 + 4000 x 1.0 = 11.950

At rate No.2:

1500 x 0.1 + 1000 x 0.3 + 1000 x 0.3 + 500 x 0.5 + 5000 x 1.0 + 4000 x 1.0 = 10.000

At rate No.4:

1500 x 0.0 + 1000 x 0.1 + 1000 x 0.2 + 500 x 0.3 + 5000 x 0.5 + 4000 x 1.0 = 6.950

If there are 13.000 words at first, the number of words at rate No.4 (6.950) is equivalent to ½ in comparison with rate No.1 (11.950).

Supposing basic price is 300VND/words, the end use price at rate No.1 is 3.585.000VNĐ and end use price at rate No.4 is 2.085.000VNĐ.

At rate No.4, the number of words in original document decrease a half and price is dropped down at 150VNĐ/từ. Please pay attention!