xliff.ai · Quick start for students
Translate a bilingual file in your browser
Nothing to install and no account. Your file stays on this computer.
- 1Open. Go to xliff.ai in Chrome or Edge and drop your file on the page, or choose it. It opens in the editor.
- 2Translate. Click a target cell and type. Ctrl+Enter confirms the segment and moves to the next unconfirmed one. Your work is saved in this browser as you type.
- 3Use the memory and the glossary. In the Memory panel, Load a translation memory (a TMX). In the Glossary panel, Load a glossary (a TBX). Matches and terms appear beside the segment.
- 4Check. The checks run by themselves. Choose QA in the top bar, and click an issue to jump to its segment.
- 5Hand in. Export (Ctrl+S) gives the file back in its own format, under the same name. The ▾ beside Export has the QA report, the review workbook and Import review workbook.
Keys
- Ctrl+Enter
- Confirm, go to the next unconfirmed
- Ctrl+Shift+Enter
- Unconfirm (back to Draft)
- Ctrl+Insert
- Copy source to target
- Alt+Delete
- Clear target
- Ctrl+,
- Insert a tag at the caret
- Ctrl+Alt+Insert
- Insert the next missing tag
- Ctrl+Shift+1 … 5
- Insert memory match 1 to 5
- F3
- Concordance search
- Ctrl+F · Ctrl+H
- Find · Find and replace
- Ctrl+Z · Ctrl+Shift+Z
- Undo · Redo
- Ctrl+S
- Export
- Ctrl+/
- Every shortcut, and the Trados Studio or memoQ layout
On a Mac, Cmd works wherever Ctrl is written.
Before you leave a shared computerExport and hand in your file. Then clear this site's data in the browser: your work is saved on this computer, and the next person who opens the same file here would get it back.