Set up the Microsoft Translator Text API to work with memoQ.

How to get here

1.Open the Options window: At the very top of the memoQ window - in the Quick Access toolbar quick-access-default -, click the Options (cogwheels) quick-access-options icon. The Options window opens.

2.On the Default resources pane, click the MT icon mt-icon. The MT settings pane appears.

3.Select the MT profile you are using and under the list, click Edit.

4.On the Services tab, find the Microsoft MT plugin and click its row. The Microsoft MT plugin settings window opens.MicrosoftMT-new

What can you do?

1.Obtain your access: Start a new Azure subscription. Click Sign up for a new subscription. You can sign up for a one-month free trial. Although Microsoft will ask for credit card details, the lowest plan gives you 2,000,000 (two million) characters for free each month.

2.Start managing your subscription. In the Microsoft Azure dashboard, click the green plus sign. Under Intelligence + analysis, click Cognitive Services APIs. From the API type drop-down box there, choose Microsoft Translator Text API. Fill in the rest of the boxes, then click Create. You will get a subscription key.

3.Return to memoQ. In the Microsoft MT plugin settings window, under Azure Marketplace details, enter the Subscription key you received in the Azure Marketplace. Optionally, enter a Category ID, too.

4.If Microsoft offers neural machine translation for your language combinations, check the Use "Neural engine" check box. Neural machine translation provides slightly better accuracy and a more fluent translation in some cases. To learn which languages are supported by each service, visit this web page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/translator/languages.aspx.

5.Click Check login data.

1.Normally, when memoQ sends text to Microsoft, the tags are not sent. The translation you get back from Microsoft will not contain any tags. memoQ will insert all the tags at the end of the machine-translated text. Choose how to handle tags with the Formatting and tag dropdown.
 
- To use no formatting and no tags: Choose Use plain text only.
- To use formatting but use no tags: Choose Use text and formatting.
- To use both formatting and tags: Choose Use both formattings and tags.

When you finish

To save the settings, and return to the MT settings tab of the Options window: Click OK, then click OK again.

To return to the MT settings tab of the Options window, but not save the new settings: Click Cancel, then click Cancel again.

To use the output of the tool in the translation editor:

1.On the Services tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, check the plugin's check box on the left.

2.On the Settings tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, select the plugin from the Pre-translation dropdown. Select an option other than Off below the dropdown.

3.Open a project with a supported language pair.

4.Open a document for editing, and check machine-translated suggestions.

To use the output in pre-translation:

1.On the Services tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, check the plugin's check box on the left.

2.On the Settings tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, select the plugin from the Pre-translation dropdown.

3.Open a project with a supported language pair.

4.Run Pre-translate. In the Pre-translate and statistics window, check the Use machine translation if there's no TM match check box. (memoQ will remember this.)