Do you use predictive typing in your CAT tool?

Dmitry

Happy Monday, everyone!

I'm currently working on a rather large video game localization project. I worked on it in the past and decided that apart from using my TM, I might as well enable the predictive typing feature in my MemoQ to see if it helps improve my speed and output a bit.

In MemoQ this is called a "Muse" and you can use your TMs and corpora to train it and help you type faster by predicting what you're about to write. It's a nifty little feature, and I was wondering if any of you use something similar in your work?

Do you use predictive typing in your CAT tool? Does it help you improve your output and speed? Or is it just an annoying distraction for you?

Share your thoughts below!

eleonorang

Hi @Dmitry, how's your experiment going? Does it feel quicker or slower with predictive typing?
In the recent past I've seen the same feature in action, only in Trados Studio, and eventually decided against using it. The list of suggestions can be quite long sometimes and, Idk, I feel like it takes away my attention and that I spend more time checking out suggestions and selecting the one that I need than I would have spent if I had just typed. I'm curious, let us know ?

Dmitry

eleonorang I did find it useful but only to a certain degree. When the text is not very creative it does help a bit because you might use similar sentence structures or words. For me it is particularly useful when I'm using a rather long word and predictive typing guesses it then it's easier to just inset it rather than finish typing.

Sometimes it also predicts whole phrases which is also handy. I wouldn't say it revolutionized my productivity. It only slightly improved it. But I'm curious about other people's experiences with it. Perhaps it's all depends on the field you're working in? I suppose it's a must have for legal, financial and technical where sentence structures and phrases tend to repeat a lot?

MartinJanda

It was the best boost to my productivity ever since when DejaVu introduced the feature years ago (good morning memoQ and Trados : )) I basically stopped typing words or phrases, as entering the first two or three letters were enough. Obviously, you need texts with repetitive words or phrases - not very useful with poetry ?

Today, I am using voice dictation which is even faster, but even now the prediction feature helps from time to time.