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Memsource now rebranded as Phrase
Thread poster: Robert Rietvelt
Robert Rietvelt
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Dec 9, 2022

Is Memsource taken over by Phrase (or vice versa)?

https://phrase.com/

I am not sure what to make of it, and what this will mean for us in the future.

Has anybody experience with this 'new' CAT? (if it is a new CAT)
 
Dan Lucas
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No material change so far Dec 9, 2022

Robert Rietvelt wrote:
Has anybody experience with this 'new' CAT? (if it is a new CAT)

I have been using Phrase for a month or so now. So far the only changes I have noticed compared to Memsource have been in the branding. Functionality seems to be identical. I don't know what the implications are longer term.

Regards,
Dan

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Samuel Murray
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Rebranding Dec 9, 2022

Robert Rietvelt wrote:
Is Memsource taken over by Phrase (or vice versa)?

According to Jost's newsletter, it's just a rebranding.

It always amazes me when companies decide it is better for them to be more difficult to find in search engines, when they change their unique name to some generic word.

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Vladimir Pochinov
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Memsource now rebranded as Phrase -- free plan disappeared Dec 9, 2022

If I'm not mistaken, there was a free plan for freelancers. It seems it's not an option now.

Otherwise, it looks the same.
 
Samuel Murray
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Free plan Dec 9, 2022

The free plan (max 2 documents) disappeared at around May 2022, which was several months before the rebranding.
https://www.memsource.com/pricing/
 
BabelOn-line
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Swiss-Army knife Jan 27, 2023

My understanding is that Memsource has absorbed Phrase. Phrase was the tool to translate "strings" - which I understand are the word contents of software user interface.

Annoyingly for Google searches: it was way easier to look for "how to do this or that" + "Memsource" than teh same + "phrase", which yields unwanted results.

As a user, I am in awe of Phrase. Thier team is great. Only problem: cost and the fact I am often feeling like a chimpanzee who be given an Airbu... See more
My understanding is that Memsource has absorbed Phrase. Phrase was the tool to translate "strings" - which I understand are the word contents of software user interface.

Annoyingly for Google searches: it was way easier to look for "how to do this or that" + "Memsource" than teh same + "phrase", which yields unwanted results.

As a user, I am in awe of Phrase. Thier team is great. Only problem: cost and the fact I am often feeling like a chimpanzee who be given an Airbus 380 to fly. ▲ Collapse
 
Annette Christmas
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Using Memsource takes three tims as long now it has merged with Phrase? Feb 18, 2023

Has anyone else found that the rapid, intelligent, streamlined machine translation that Memsource used to offer (e.g. using Deepl TM) has been all but obliterated now that it has been merged with Phrase? I now have to battle with irrelevant insertions, repeated and omitted phrases in every single segment. Finding a thread of meaning among that is a huge and unnecessary challenge. Am I alone in this? Perhaps it is just the rather abstruse text I am translating at the moment?
 


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