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Why I click with your tool is that I think I have a very iterative kind of mindset. I like to take big risks, like jump into things, try it, and then if it doesn’t work, improve it. Say, okay, I have a tool that works everywhere in Windows, whatever platform you’re on. And then these are the arguments I think to put forward. I think as a beginning, I could be wrong, but I do think that this is for the general public. I remember looking at you a year ago when I had not tried anything about AI and I said, oh, this guy is way too advanced for me. I would not be able to follow any of this. In fact, it’s so iterative and so simple, of course you would be able to follow and that would be a key point that no matter where you are, you can start using this. And it’s pretty fun. Also, put the fun. I think put the fun part in the forefront because it is actually very fun.
You know what? We’re not created all alike. Because one of the things I really, really appreciate in CotranslatorAI is that the interface is very simple. By having a very simple interface with not much redundancy, then the mental space is really preserved for our own creation and crafting of prompts that really work for us. That really why I signed up. Because I was, in my mind, I was saying, okay, I translate in a CAT tool. Why am I not able to tell my CAT tool that after segment three, this word should be translated this way? Yeah, yeah, yeah, from now on. And then, like, suddenly, like, like, suddenly I see this Steve Bammel saying, oh, yeah, it’s easy. This is what my tool is totally doing. Said, yeah, this is what I want.
The key word for me is that your tool gives me the ability to use my creativity, which is why I chose this profession in the first place, to be creative in my words, in my language, in my processes also. That restores me all my value. With a simple interface, I can be creative again. I am sure that AI is not stealing away this creativity from me, but I am in control of my processes. Therefore, I put my creativity into that. That, for me, is community. And this point were the two big ideas that made me jump into your tool.
I translate into Portuguese for Brazil, and I use CotranslatorAI and the Trados app. I prefer CotranslatorAI. I am using it as an editor of my work. I am producing more. In the beginning, it was slower, but it gives great results.
What I want to add, Steven, is I hated Trados. I did a few attempts to learn how it works and then I later bought memoQ and I tried to do self study. I hated it. And then I had a client, a translation agency, who had an online version of Memsource. But what I always hated was to be stuck in this segment working. To work segment per segment per segment. I hated this. And what I discovered with your product or your app is, it’s fun again. I have the freedom again to work with the text and have a larger chunk of text which I can then revise. I have now the means to even automate a part of the revision. So this makes for me the attraction of CotranslatorAI.
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I can only add that I really must thank you. A big thank you because I’ve saved a huge amount of time since I began implementing your approach and I really have to say, I could touch with my hand the importance of this new technique, this approach. I really thank you. Not just for your software, but for the prompt engineering you developed. Yes, I implemented some prompts with Claude, with ChatGPT. I even tried with Gemini, with all the range of possible AI. I think with Claude and ChatGPT, I managed to achieve excellent results. I managed to translate 15,000 words in not even a day. With excellent, excellent quality. For me the tags are not too worrisome anymore. It’s like having matches, for me it’s like having 100 percent matches. So thank you. I want to deepen my knowledge of your software or your approach. So I really think it’s the future of our profession. By the way, since the 1990s up to now there was a steep evolution of techniques with machine translations, with a lot of improvements little by little, with the CAT tools, with NMT tools, and now with the AI. I was skeptic at the beginning. But now I feel very empowered.
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Your web class was helpful, Steven, already. Because it’s framed positively. Because I get so discouraged when I read so much negativity online. Even if it’s based in kernels of reality, it’s like, anyway, does that make sense? I want to have people tell me the truth and be based in reality. But I’d like them to frame things in a way that’s like, what can we do about it? It’s like it’s solution focused. It’s not, well, I guess you picked a profession that’s on its, you know, it’s on its swan song, like.
Well, I mean, you know, just complaining is not an action plan. No, it isn’t. And, there’s no solutions without an action plan. So, yeah, that’s the case. What are we going to do about the fact that AI is here to stay? And I think that’s what you are trying to do in your webclass.
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Well, I think if all you’re wanting is to simply provide a succinct overview of the benefits, then that could fit nicely in a one hour. If it’s about learning, then of course, which is what Steven’s doing, it takes a lot longer and you need to have lots of reps. But it’s, I mean, who is it that was saying it? Jamie McLennan, I think, was saying that translators need to be in the lead, not on a leash. And this puts us in the driver’s seat. It makes things… Once you learn it, it should make things faster and either maintain or increase quality. I mean, that’s one slide right there. Yeah, yeah, that’s the main message. Become, again, a swimmer in the deep. Not stay in the part where you can stand in a swimming pool, but learn to swim again. Be free. Be proactive instead of reactive. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaking for myself personally, one of the reasons why I signed up here was because I want a one-stop shop to learn an entire tool and process. Because what I don’t personally like is going out onto the Internet and picking and choosing from multiple sources. I find it overwhelming. And this is like, there’s a lot of information in what you’re providing and lots of different individual courses and video modules, but it’s all in one place. And so it’s like if what you want is to learn how to be in the driver’s seat and use AI for both post editing and translation, CotranslatorAI is how you can do that. And here is the one-stop shop for everything you’re going to need to know, including live coaching. That is like the succinct version. I want to learn about AI, I want to be in the driver’s seat and I want to have a future in translation. And this is one of the ways to do that. So like those punchy one liners like use AI for translation, use AI for post editing, because reality is they’re going to ask us to post edit. That’s sort of my personal view on it. I was feeling overwhelmed trying to cast about across the whole Internet for all these different tools and everybody has a take on AI. I just want to start in one place and go down the rabbit hole. And that’s what this course helps with in my view.
