User Guide

SYSTRAN Desktop 7 User Guide 3
SYSTRAN Desktop 7 Overview
Welcome to SYSTRAN Desktop 7 Products User Guide.
SYSTRAN Desktop 7 is the newest and most powerful version of SYSTRAN translation
software. SYSTRAN Desktop 7 introduces a variety of new features and capabilities for the
translation of text in any Windows-based application.
SYSTRAN Desktop 7 products are:
• SYSTRAN Premium Translator
• SYSTRAN Business Translator
• SYSTRAN Office Translator
• SYSTRAN Home Translator
SYSTRAN Desktop 7 products offer a wide variety of features.
The SYSTRAN Desktop 7 Products Comparison table displays the features supported by the
four SYSTRAN Desktop 7 products.
For information on SYSTRAN Desktop 7 minimum system requirements, refer to Installing,
Activating, and Registering SYSTRAN Desktop 7.
What's New?
SYSTRAN Desktop 7 products are powered by our new hybrid machine translation (MT)
engine. This underlying technology combines the strengths of rule-based MT and statistical
techniques so SYSTRAN Desktop 7 products can automatically learn from existing and
validated translations. The self-learning techniques allow users to train SYSTRAN Desktop 7
products to any specific domain or business objective to achieve cost-effective, high quality
translations of your texts, documents, emails, and more.
In other words, our smart technology acquires knowledge as it is used. SYSTRAN makes it
possible for you to customize SYSTRAN Desktop 7 products so that it fits the terminology of
the content you translate. Then, as the content is used and reused it automatically updates
itself. As the SYSTRAN Desktop 7 products get “smarter”, you are better able to keep pace
with all your translation needs.
• SYSTRAN Interactive Translator (formerly called SYSTRAN Toolbar) is a feature-rich tool
that allows you to quickly translate input text, adapt translation choices, augment your
own dictionaries, and research terms between 52+ of the world’s most popular language
pairs (refer to Using the SYSTRAN Interactive Translator).
• SYSTRAN Customization Wizard allows you to automatically use your files and emails to
train SYSTRAN Desktop 7 products to learn new terminology and improve the quality of
your translations (refer to Using the SYSTRAN Customization Wizard).
• SYSTRAN Document Aligner automatically builds a Translation Memory from two files.
The first file contains text in the source language, and the second contains the translation
of the first file.