Translation agency with quality guarantee

Most often, the number of words to be translated in the source language is taken as a basis and multiplied by a word price. When determining the translation volume, repetitions in the text are taken into account, because the same sentence does not need to be translated twice. For regular orders, the translations are stored in a database (translation memory). If a new text contains sentences that have already been translated, this is also taken into account in the calculation.

In a way, many reputable translation providers have a few things in common. They translate specialized texts into different languages, implement recognized quality standards and offer reasonable prices. Some of the factors that set D.O.G. GmbH apart are:

• The holistic perspective: We always have the long-term customer relationship and the interest of our customers in mind.
• Innovation. We have always been interested in new technologies to improve existing processes and developed new technologies long before many others. Our ErrorSpy quality assurance software was the first commercial product of its kind on the market in 2003.

Machines are not intelligent, but they are very good and fast at computing. Neural machine translation systems are based on AI and are able to translate larger texts quickly. A large part of the translations is acceptable or even good, but a small part is faulty and sometimes contains consequential errors. Therefore, machine translation (MT) is not suitable for all texts and should usually be used only in conjunction with post-editing by qualified proofreaders.

One important reason why companies are not so keen to change service providers is that it already takes a lot of time and work until the service provider has become familiar and works the way they need it to. But sometimes a change is necessary and the legitimate question is: How much work do you have to invest until the cooperation works perfectly?
We have developed processes and procedures over many years to reduce the learning curve to a minimum. We know exactly what are the most important points to focus on. We inform ourselves in detail about our customers’ activities and products. We record the most important specifications for handling commercial transactions, data formats, data exchange, language variants, terminology and much more in our system so that all employees involved know what needs to be done. We extract terminology from reference materials such as previous translations or translation memories to ensure that the correct translations are used immediately. We also store all communication, answers to translators’ questions and the like, so we don’t have to ask the same questions twice. Finally, we encourage online or face-to-face meetings during the first months of collaboration to get feedback on our work and implement any suggestions for improvement.

There are some measures a client can take to reduce translation costs. Here are some examples:

1. Standardize and optimize the source text:short sentences, avoid filler words, consistent style, consistent terminology.
2. Working with an content management system:Documentations are divided into modules or information elements in order to reuse them in as many documents as possible. Once translated, modules do not need to be translated again.
3. Have translation memory software be used for your projects.Existing translations are reused and reduce the amount of text to be translated.
4. Test the possibility of machine translation with post-editing

A full-service translation agency is a translation company that offers a comprehensive range of services in the field of languages and translations. These include the translation of various types of texts, technical editing of files in different formats such as videos, software, desktop publishing or graphics.
Usually, such a translation agency covers the most common language combinations and has specialized translators for a large number of subject areas.
In addition to pure translation services, such a translation agency also offers terminology services and other language-related services.
Services offered by a full-service translation agency include translation of websites, marketing materials, technical documentation, legal documents, medical texts and patent specifications.
The goal of a full-service translation agency is to provide its clients with a single point of contact for all translation needs in order to save time and resources.