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Last updated: 6 May 2021

6 May 2021

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The new version of the CAT editor has support for the following keyboard shortcuts: 

• Command/⌘+Option+Up to go to the previous segment
• Command/ ⌘+Option+Down to go to the next segment
• Command/⌘+Up to go to the previous unconfirmed segment
• Command/ ⌘+Down to go to the next unconfirmed segment

Interested in speeding up your translation? Go here for information about additional hotkeys

Batch QA: Users can now undo changes made to a segment in the Batch QA modal by selecting the undo button right on the segment.

28 Apr 2021

Translate: The new version of the CAT editor is now generally available and is now the default CAT experience for all linguists.

Comments via API: Lilt has added comment CRUD support via the API as a way for exchanging client-review information and allowing the exchange of feedback for clients implementing their own systems allowing customers to rely on the API for the end to end process.

For additional information please checkout the Comments endpoints in the API Reference.

Webflow connector: Webflow is a no-code platform for the design and development of websites. Lilt + Webflow connector enables companies to automatically push and pull dynamic CMS content between Webflow and Lilt for seamless localization.

For additional information please checkout the Webflow connector in the knowledge base.

Batch QA Improvement: We're releasing an undo button so that changes made to segments can be undone directly on the Batch QA modal.

Accessibility: Icons in the design system were updated to have labels for screen readers.

Bug Fixes + Improvements:

• Memory Management UX improvement
• Added Org Setting for Mandatory Error Flagging
• Resolved 500 error when deleting users
• Improvements to Org Setting labels
• Mouse hover UX improvements
• Resolved MT model from non-US region not adapting
• Resolved MySQL not storing timeConfirmed for confirmed segments
• Resolved BigQuery Events not storing confirmed and accepted events
• Resolved immutable proposals map

14 Apr 2021

Lilt Translate: As we roll out Lilt Translate to more linguists, we've been taking in feedback and making fixes to the CAT editor. We've adding the ability to use multiple views at one time i.e Unconfirmed segments that contain tags.

TM Only Language Requests: You can find an up-to-date list of supported languages in our knowledge base.

• Amharic [am] > English (US) [en-US]
• English (US) [en-US] > Amharic [am]
• English (US) [en-US] > Zulu [zu]
• Zulu [zu] > English (US) [en-US]

Bug Fixes + Improvements:

• Various improvements to tag handling
• Various improvements to NT handling
• Improvements to tag structure propagated segments
• Resolved segment state issues
• Resolved confirmation issues
• Resolved import leverage calculation issues  

8 Apr 2021

CAT

• Repeated Error Category: In review mode, linguists will be able to mark a segment as a repeated error without having to add an error annotation.
• Segments with Tags View: Linguists can now filter a document to only view the segments that contain tags.
• Combination Views: Linguists can now filter a document for unconfirmed segments with tags, reviewed comments with notes etc.
• Source Highlighting Tool: Users will be able to highlight words and phrases looking them up with ease in Concordance, copy them to the target, and look them up in segment context.
• Case-sensitive TM matching: Under settings, linguists will have the option to enable case-sensitive TM matching .
• Full document QA: Users will be able to run the full QA check against all the segments in a document. This QA check will highlight spelling and grammatical errors as well as tag errors.

• Fuzzy matches will append any text in the target
• Segment loading indicator in the footer
• Segments excluded from the review sample will be auto-confirmed and not appear in the “unreviewed” filter
• Number of segments reviewed, words reviewed in the footer
• Segments only partially saving, target segments disappearing
• Segments with empty targets cannot be confirmed, there must be something is the target for the segment to be confirmed

30 Mar 2021

Send XTM TB via connector: The XTM connector can now handle transporting termbases from XTM to Lilt. Customers utilizing the connector no longer have to manually email the file(s) to their service manager.

Bug Fixes + Improvements:

• Lilt Insights now calculates TAT based on when a project is moved to done, as opposed to when it is archived. Best practice is still to archive projects when they are done.
• Segments composed exclusively of NTs are now being leveraged as 100% matches.
• Various small improvements to NT handling.

17 Mar 2021

TM Only Language Requests: You can find an up-to-date list of supported languages in our knowledge base.

• Burmese [my] > English [en]
• English [en] > Burmese [my]
• English [en] > Farsi [fa]
• Farsi [fa] > English [en]

Batch MT Support for Custom File Filters: Improvements to the File Translation API to support the use of custom file filters.

For additional information please checkout File Translation API Usage in the knowledge base.

Jira Integration: The Lilt + Jira integration enables Lilt to automatically create a Jira Issue when a new project is created via a connector (Contentful, Zendesk, etc.). This streamlined workflow allows Lilt to fit into your organization's existing Jira project tracker.

For additional information please checkout the Jira integration in the knowledge base.

REVIEW SAMPLING ENHANCEMENTS

• Exclude exact matches and repetitions from review: We are implementing a project setting to exclude 100% TM matches and document repetitions. This will help improve margins by making sure reviewers are only reviewing segments that the customer pays for.
• Default review sampling percent: There will be an organization setting for the default review sampling percentage that will be passed onto the projects. Managers will be able to override the default on project creation or in the project setting.
• Remove review sampling from assignment flow: As part of the enhancements to review sampling, setting the percentage will no longer be done as part of assignments. This decreases the complexity of the assignment flow and puts the setting where it belongs.
• Job packaging inside Contentful: Tim is incorporating feedback from Snap into another iteration of the connector improvements.

CAT

• Split View: Linguists now have the option to see the source and the target side by side in the CAT editor.

03 Mar 2021

CAT: We're continuing to bring the new CAT editor to the finish line by completing the following features

• Approve and edit termbase additions: In review mode, reviewers can now approve or edit termbase.
• File downloads: Service managers will be able to download files from the CAT editor. Linguists will still be able to download their personal projects.
• Review sampling icon: The lock icon will now appear on segments that are excluded from review sampling.
• More keyboard shortcuts: Changing case, adding a new termbase term are now available in dropdowns in the navigation toolbar.
• Tags menu: All tag functionality will be in a separate menu on the navigation toolbar under the “Tags” menu
• Additional error categories: Linguist will be able to mark a segment as a repeated error without having to add an error annotation.

TM Only Language Requests: You can find an up-to-date list of supported languages in our knowledge base.

• Catalan [cat-ES] > English [en]
• English [en] > Catalan [cat-ES]
• English [en] > Mongolian [mn-MN]
• English [en] > Nepali [ne-NP]
• Mongolian [mn-MN] > English [en]
• Nepali [ne-NP] > English [en]

Reference material: Service Managers will no longer be required to email attachments to linguists and linguists will be able to access reference material in Lilt and will be paid for the time they spend researching reference material.

NOTE: Linguists should wait for their service managers to notify them that Reference Material has been integrated into their account's workflow.

Updated Features

In-App Insights Improvements:

• Software customers can now enable/disable access to the Insights page using an Organization Setting. When toggled on, it will be shown to all members whose roles permit them to read reports. This includes the default role of Administrator as well as any custom roles created that have the 'View Reports' permission toggled on.
• UI improvements to the project selector dropdown.

For additional information please checkout In-app Insights in the knowledge base.

Bug Fixes + Improvements

• Added new parameter for removing backslash escapes.
• Resolved minor TMX import issue.

Recap Q4 2020

Connectors management API improvements: An improved management API for handling the increasing number of jobs being created by connectors.

Drupal connector: Drupal is a highly customizable CMS (Content Management System) that is very popular in large enterprise organizations.

Customers will have the ability to send content from Drupal to Lilt for localization. After translation, Lilt will automatically send the localized content back to Drupal.

You can learn more about the connector in the official Drupal marketplace.

Organization Level Settings: The Settings page is a centralized resource within the Organization tab where administrators can manage various organizational level functionality such as Batch QA.

For additional information please checkout Organization Settings in our knowledge base.

In-App Insights: Software customers can access an Insights dashboard directly in the Lilt App. The dashboard provides users with an interactive analysis of their volume and leverage data. Access to the Insights page is controlled by Role Based Access Control and an Organization setting.

For additional information please checkout In-app Insights in the knowledge base.

Batch MT: Previously, if a user wanted to translate an entire document with Machine Translation (MT), Lilt looked through all the segments and translated them one-by-one in the MT system. This process was inefficient, as it only translates a few thousand words-per-minute and additionally tied up the MT resources that translators needed to work in the editor.

Batch MT takes these big document-level MT requests and translates them all at once on a GPU. This is much faster and doesn't disrupt other translation work.

Non-translatables Handling: Non-translatables (NT) are characters, symbols, and words within a segment that do not need to be translated. NT come in various forms including numbers, formulas, code, email addresses, and currency. We now provide linguists with a more streamlined approach to handling NT in the editor with the goal of providing our customers with higher quality deliverables. This project spanned both the Enterprise and Translator pods as well as Neural.

TM Only Language Requests:

- Chinese (Simplified) [zh-CN] > Chinese (Traditional) [zh-TW]

- English (US) [en-US] > Bosnian (bs-BA)

- English (US) [en-US] > Haitian Creole (ht-HT)

- English (US) [en-US] > Khmer (Cambodia) [km-KH]

- English (US) [en-US] > Kinyarwanda [rw-RW]

- English (US) [en-US] > Urdu (Pakistan) [ur-PK]

- French [fr] > French (Canadian) [fr-CA]

- French [fr] > Portuguese (Portugal) [pt-PT]

- French [fr] > Spanish (Spain) [es-ES]

- German [de] > Finnish [fi-FI]

- German [de] > Norwegian [no-NO]

- Malay (Malaysia) [ms-MY] > English (US) [en-US]

CAT: In Q4, we built out a bulk of the functionality that linguists use to translate documents. We focused on building out the rest of the editor, concentrating on the navigation menu that will help translators with all the shortcuts and actions that can be taken in a document. Below is a summary of all the features built in Q4:

Segments

• Support for tags in segments both source and target
• Support NTs (non-translatables) to appear in the segments with tag-like structures
• Predictive NMT

Document Management and Tools

• New navigation toolbar containing tools and shortcuts
• Auto-Scroll - setting allowing linguist to navigate to the next unconfirmed segment
• Concordance search in the sidebar
• In-app link to release notes in the new app version banner
• Terminology highlighting - Terminology is highlighted in the source and suggestion areas of a document
• Adding Terminology to the Termbase - translators can add terminology right from the editor using Option + A
• Tag Navigation - all keyboard shortcuts related to tag navigation in the editor

Segment Context Sidebar

• The Search Menu - allows linguist to search for words or phrases and return termbase, translation memory and any segment context

Editor Logging Events

• Capturing keystroke events in the editor

Batch QA Done Modal: When the organization setting is enabled for running Batch QA upon document translation, translators and/or reviewers will be prompted to run Batch QA before marking the document as complete.

Updated Features

In-App Insights Improvements:

- Various small enhancements to improve the experience for software customers when using In-App Insights.

XLIFF Export Improvements:

- XLIFF's now utilize four letter language/local codes.

Batch Delivery for Connectors:

In the past, documents submitted via the XTM connector would be grouped into one Lilt project, and those documents would not be delivered back to XTM until the entire project was marked as done, meaning all documents submitted had been translated. This resulted in a slower turn-around-time as a completed document had to wait for the rest of the project's documents to be localized.

The connectors now have the ability to specify the max number of documents to be contained within one project, which reduces turn-around time on documents submitted via XTM.

Batch QA Rule Editing: Some rules for certain languages in have been updated not to trigger based on the number of false positives.

22 Dec 2020

Updated Feature 

• Run Batch QA Upon Document Completion

When the organization setting is enabled for running Batch QA upon document translation, translators and/or reviewers will be prompted to run batch QA before marking the document as complete:

Simply disposition any quality errors in the document and dismiss the Batch QA modal. Afterwards, the document can be marked as done.

30 Sept 2020

New Features

• Working Time Tracker

As linguists translate or review on the platform, it's useful for them to know how long they've been working on a given project. Starting today, information about the number of hours worked will appear in the info section of the project, on the right sidebar.

The time format will be shown in decimal form. For example, if a translator spends 2 hours and 27 minutes, it will be shown as 2.45 hours. The information is only viewable while the project is in a non-archived state. Please note that once the project is archived, the information will be inaccessible.

It should be noted that the time spent working will not update live as work progresses. Rather, hours worked will be updated approximately every 3 to 4 hours. The time tracker will indicate when the last update of time spent working was made.

25 Sept 2020

New Features

• Right -to- left and Left-to- right direction control

We implemented Right-to-left and Left-to-right direction marks in the CAT editor. These controls are used to set the way adjacent characters are grouped with the respect to text direction. For translating from English to the Arabic language without an LRM control character, the browser would render the phrase like "The language C++ is a programming language used..." in to the target like this:

                                                                                                                        لغة ++C هي لغة برمجة تستخدم...

With an LRM entered in the editor after the ++, appears like this, as the writer intends:

                                                                                                                               لغة C++‎ هي لغة برمجة تستخدم...

Simply enter one of the markers directly after the word to change its direction. Check out this video demo showing how the markers work.

*Known Issue: After the marker is inserted into the segment, you will get an extra marker character when pressing the spacebar. The extra character will disappear once you confirm the segment.

1 Sept 2020

New Features

• Whitespace character support

There are some changes to the CAT editor to support the representation of whitespace characters in documentation. The editor now supports the entry of the following whitespace characters:

 ° for non-breaking space, entered using Command + Shift + Space keys

→ for tab using the Tab key

As a result of these changes, the mapping of the Tab key will be used to enter the Tab whitespace character. MT suggestions in the editor will only autocomplete using the “Enter/Return” key.

• Navigating between tags

Before, the Tab key was also used to navigate between tags on segments. Now, you can navigate between tags for segments (unconfirmed and confirmed states) by using the following keyboard shortcuts:

Ctrl + ] to navigate to the next tag

Ctrl + [ to navigate to the previous tag

21 Aug 2020 

New Features

• Batch QA 
  • When linguists ran the  “QA Check” option from the Tools menu, they would need to go through a document segment by segment to find and fix errors. Now, linguists have the option to run a Linguistic Batch QA option showing a consolidated view of all linguistic errors for all segments (unconfirmed, confirmed, accepted) grouped by error type in a new modal. The new interface allows translators and reviewers to view, ignore, and accept linguistic QA errors all at once, right in the new modal. The option to run a QA check on individual segments remains.

Batch QA Modal

• Tag QA

  • QA checks against tags are now available, reducing the amount of time SMs spend looking for tag errors.

    When the Run QA option is selected from the Tools menu, QA checks are run against a set of tag rules and linguistic QA rules. Users can switch between linguistic QA checks and tag QA checks by toggling the error view on the segment.

    There is also an option to Run Tag QA at the document level. To find errors, focus on each segment to view errors on the target.

    

*If there are no tags in your document, you will not see any messaging back if you run the Tag QA check.

27 Jul 2020

New Features

• Simultaneous text + tag editor
  • You can now edit tags and text simultaneously. After a segment with tags is confirmed and tags are projected, you will be able to move tags (with drag-and-drop or keyboard shortcuts) and type text in the same mode.
• Tag validation override
  • We have automatic checks to determine whether tags are positioned and nested correctly. When a tag is invalid, it shows as red and does not save automatically. Now, we’ve added the ability to override the validation rule if you are sure that tag placement is correct in a particular case, by confirming or accepting the segment. When a segment is confirmed / accepted, all tags will be saved.

24 Jul 2020

New Features

• Batch accept and reject assignment
  • You can now accept or reject a translation or review assignment for multiple documents at once by clicking "Select All" (or selecting them one-by-one) from the document details view.
• New error categories
  • We've updated the error categories according to our new error taxonomy. Ask your SM for more information about Lilt's new Review Guidelines.

23 June 2020

New Features

• Filter for segments with tags
  • You can now filter for segments with tags (from "View > Segments with Tags") so you can double-check tag placement easily. This filters for all segments with tags in the source. Make sure you’ve turned on "Tools > Show tags in confirmed" to see the tags in the target!
• Clearer translation and review deadlines
  • The project card will now show you the most urgent translation and review deadline in that project for you.
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  • This information will also be shown on the Project Details sidebar (when you click (i) on the project card), as well as in the documents view.
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28 May 2020

Bug Fixes / Improvements

• Fixed a bug where 100% matches were getting degraded to 99% matches in the sidebar and editor
• Fixed nbsp shortcut: now accessible with `cmd+shift+space`.

22 May 2020

New Features

• Tag auto-propagation and leverage:
  • Tags will now be auto-propagated with 100% TM matches! If you change tag positions in a segment and another segment has the same source tags, the target tags will be propagated to match. Note that you must have forward and/or backward auto-propagation turned on in "Settings."
  • When a 100% or 101% TM match with matching source tags is leveraged, the target tags will be leveraged as well.
  • 100% or 101% TM matches with the same source text but different source tags will be degraded to 99% matches.

Bug Fixes / Improvements

• Fix bug where projects detail search bar ("Search Documents") didn't work

7 May 2020

New Features

• Added spell check in QA

Bug Fixes / Improvements

• Fix bug where comments disappear on refresh
• Fix false positive trailing punctuation mismatch in Arabic QA
• Fix termbase crash when the query string contains nbsp
• Fix bug where "Reviewed Target" in revision report didn't match target in the editor
• Fix bug where typing in one segment moves tags in another segment

22 Apr 2020

New Features

• New keyboard shortcut for toggling between tags and text mode (ctrl-option-n, also see the (?) sidebar panel)
• Note a new change to the tag editor: we are rolling out the simultaneous text + tag editor, but in the meantime we needed to make some changes to improve the performance in the editor: you can now no longer edit tags in an unfocused segment. To edit tags, you must click on the segment (without unconfirming or unaccepting it).

Bug Fixes / Improvements

• Performance improvements for the editor
• URLs in Segment Metadata now open in a new tab