For the past two years, one question has run through the entire translation industry: what is left for humans to do when artificial intelligence translates in seconds? Many see a threat. At DAT, we saw an invitation to rethink everything, and to build the tool we had always wished we had.
The result is a next-generation translation platform, already in production. It does not replace human expertise: it multiplies it. Here is what it changes, concretely, for those who order translations as much as for those who produce them.
The problem everyone knows, and no one had truly solved
Translating a document is not about transforming words. It is about finding the right term, the one your client approved three years ago, in another project, on another format. It is about making sure a user manual, a software interface and a training video all speak exactly the same language. It is about never doing the same work twice. Traditional tools such as Trados, memoQ or DéjaVu offer partial answers, at the cost of heavy proprietary environments, expensive licences, and a memory that only recognises what is written identically.
We tackled the problem at its root. Our platform no longer looks for similarity between words: it searches by meaning. Where a conventional tool only retrieves a translation if the sentence is nearly identical, ours understands the intent and suggests the right wording, even when it is expressed differently. And when no approved translation exists yet, it draws on artificial intelligence to propose, from the real context, a first version that the linguist simply needs to refine.
For companies: faster, more accurate, and less costly with every project
If you order translations, three things change for you.
Your turnaround times shrink, because production is streamlined from end to end and a large, urgent project can be shared across several linguists working in parallel, with no loss of consistency.
Your costs fall significantly, and above all they keep falling: every translated project enriches your own memory, so that the next project costs less than the last. Your translation history becomes an asset that works for you.
Your quality, finally, stops being a promise and becomes a measurement. Our quality control is based on the international MQM standard: quality is no longer simply asserted, it is assessed, made objective and traceable. A decisive argument in sectors where a translation error carries real liability.
For agencies: freedom, without the constraints
If you are a language service provider, our platform frees you from proprietary environments. No more Trados, memoQ or DéjaVu licences to deploy and maintain. Your translation memories, wherever they come from, are taken over and put to work. They enrich themselves automatically as translation and post-editing progress, with no import work whatsoever, and organise themselves by client. You track the progress of each project in real time, and you can, where your clients agree to it, draw on the mutualised richness of your memories.
For linguists: all the comfort, none of the constraints
And because a platform is only as good as the people who bring it to life, we thought about the translator's daily work. Everything happens from a simple browser, with no licence to install, yet with the full set of features found in professional environments: contextual search, glossaries, segment filtering, progress tracking. The power of an expert tool, the simplicity of a web page.
This platform is not a project. It is in production at DAT France.
Everything you have just read works today, on real projects, for real clients. It is not a roadmap: it is the way we work.