Technical translation is a specialized translation task that involves translating documents that have been written by technical writers related to a particular subject area that is technical in nature. Often, this involves writing technical manuals for products or written descriptions how a product works and how it should be repaired if it has ceased to work. Overall, to provide an accurate document about a product a technical writer would be very conversant with the sorts of products he or she is writing about so that there is a certainty the end-product is as accurate as possible.
As long as the technical writer
is consistent in language use the technical translator will more easily be able
to perform a good translation of the document. The use of computer-assisted
translation along with terminology databases and translation memories has enabled
translation services to provide translations at a much faster rate and with
improved accuracy than has been in the past.
This means that language speakers
from around the world are able to benefit from better translations of technical
manuals than has previously been possible because of the time and cost of
manually translating technical texts.
A technical translator working
for translation services even when using the tools of computer based
translation should still have a specialized background in the field they intend
to work in and many familiarize and learn the language and orientation of
limited areas such as medical or automotive language. This means they can quickly work through
translations using their two specialist languages and come up with an
appropriate technical translation.
A technical translation also
requires good knowledge of technological skills when using machine translation
(MT) and computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools. This technology is not used
when the client wants more creativity applied to the document translation, so
the document translation service has
to be sensitive to the needs of the client when choosing a suitable technical
translator.
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