Guaranteed translation quality with ErrorSpy

ErrorSpy uses a bilingual terminology to check the translator’s compliance with the prescribed terminology. The complexity of ensuring terminology compliance for 1000 terms and 200 pages might raise questions about its feasibility; however, ErrorSpy handles this task efficiently. The software also considers multiple forms of a word (e.g., the genitive ‘s’) and detects inconsistent translations for a term. The software also works bidirectionally and can also check whether a recognized term in the target language matches an expected term in the source language.

ErrorSpy checks the correctness and country-specific conformity of typographic characters, including quotation marks. It also scans the text for incorrect spaces and ensures that all parentheses are correctly set and balanced.

ErrorSpy accurately records all source language sentences or segments that are identical. If translations for these segments vary, the system notifies the reviewer of these inconsistencies. With the introduction of the partial consistency check feature, ErrorSpy is now capable of ensuring that similar sentences receive similar translations.

Number errors can be significant in any quality assurance process. ErrorSpy performs effective checks to confirm the correctness and correspondence of numbers in the source and target languages. This includes checking that decimal points conform to standard specifications and ensuring correct formatting for specific number types such as dates or phone numbers.

ErrorSpy verifies the completeness of translations. It allows users to establish specific limits for overly lengthy or brief translations, and highlights segments that fall outside these defined boundaries. In addition, ErrorSpy can detect sentences that were forgotten to be segmented when working with a translation memory system.

Various file formats incorporate tags, which can be deleted, modified, or misplaced during the translation process. Our automated quality assurance software, ErrorSpy, promptly identifies and reports all segments containing such tag anomalies. It further offers a customisable feature enabling users to exclude specific tags from the review. An instance of this might be excluding tags related to conditional word hyphenation, which are frequently obsolete in the translated version.

A common error stems from incorrect usage of acronyms. ErrorSpy provides a feature that allows users to specify acronym patterns, such as an order number, and verify their correct translation in both languages.

If you want to perform special checks, you can define them using regular expressions. You can save these definitions under a name of your choice and reuse them.

ErrorSpy uses LookUp Context Maps to detect the context of terms and check for correct translation. This helps to avoid errors. For example, you can check that the German term “Leistung” is correctly translated into English as “output” rather than “power” in the context of an assembly line. With ErrorSpy and LookUp, you can ensure accurate and context-sensitive translations.

ErrorSpy has a built-in automatic correction feature for certain types of errors. For example, ErrorSpy is able to automatically correct erroneous interface strings in software documentation if they are flagged as such. This is particularly useful for large software projects that are still being developed up to the last minute. ErrorSpy can also automatically correct certain typographical errors or consistency errors. The corrections are logged and can be undone at any time.