Exceptionally useful for technical translations, where internal and external document repetiton is high, CAT tools are the easiest way to reuse (leverage, as it is called now) existing materials.

Déjà Vu is a productivity system for translators that combines a set of tools: a translation memory management tool, a set of different filters, a terminology management environment, and an alignment tool to import previous translations.

"Star’s Computer-Aided Translation System developed by taking advantage from the practical long term experience of one of the largest and most competitive translation service groups in the world." It bundles with TermStar, "STAR’s Multilingual Terminology Manager for professionals offers a full range of powerful management and retrieval functions and takes advantage of hyperlink theory".

This is a list of companies which produce MT software. The list has been compiled by David Mowatt (Department of Language Engineering, UMIST, Manchester).

SPANAM® and ENGSPAN® are fully automatic machine translation (MT) programs, developed and maintained by PAHO's computational linguists, translators, and programmers. The translation unit has used SPANAM (Spanish to English) and ENGSPAN (English to Spanish) to process over 40 million words since 1980. Staff and freelance translators postedit the raw output to produce high-quality translations with a 30-50% gain in productivity.

A translation memory management tool that can be integrated with a range of other complementary tools: WinAlign, MultiTerm, S-Tagger, TagEditor and T-Window.

Translation Manager is a computer-assisted translation system. It can be integrated with a Visual Alignment Tool and with IBM Via Voice, a speech recognition system.

A Translation Memory tool integrated with other tools to manage glossaries or perform alignment.

Wordfast is a Translation Memory engine available both for Mac (Ms-Office 98, 2001 and later) and Windows (Ms-Office 97, 2000 and later) systems. Beside classical translation memory services, Wordfast includes a real-time glossary and typography checker, ensuring quality and accuracy for both small and large/distributed projects.

Opentag.com is a site dedicated to the tools and technologies used in the localization of software, on-line help and documentation. They provide any type of "information or data that could help you to streamline your localization processes". Visit the link above to see a list of freely available tools for download.

MetaTexis is a new CAT tool that easily integrates with MS-Word(. It also includes other features like import/export facilities from other MS-Word compatible CAT tools.

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TranStation is specifically designed to "enhance the performance and productivity of the translator who works in the motion picture and television arenas" (the software solution to language translation, dubbing and subtitling).

Full-featured XML content and translation management software with capabilities for, among other applications, storage, management, modification of contents, and publication in one or more languages. It is tailor-made for corporations and professional individuals in search of a way to reduce heavy commitment in cost of IT ownership that takes up half the budget allocated for publishing corporate information. Or more resultant cost reduction, if they outsource their requirements.

If you have to find translations for single words very quickly in order to maintain your online communication- or workflow, you can benefit quite a lot from using the Langtolang Internet Explorer addons. 12 addons are available for translations between English and Spanish/ Russian/ German/ Italian/ French/ Turkish.

Glossy is the clever low cost solution for translators looking for a powerful and yet easy to use tool to simplify translation of Word, Text, RTF documents and web pages.