CAT stands for Computer-Assisted Translation or sometimes abbreviated as Computer-Aided translation. Therefore, CAT tools or soft-wares are designed to make translators or linguists speed up their capacity. Simply, the translator uploads required files to the application, and the files will be automatically processed (including splitting into segments, applying available memory translation, etc.).

The translator is only to work the untranslated segments. The CAT tools can efficiently help to enhance the output quality in terms of inconsistency, formatting and others.

Below are the most popular CAT tools for linguists:

The useful guideline for English – your native language translation/editing :

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