What's new in Lab Forge
Improvements we have shipped, newest first.
Review together, deliver with confidence
- Review
Comments on individual segments
Reviewers can ask a question on a specific segment and translators can answer it in place, so the conversation stays next to the text it is about.
- Review
A reason for every edit
When a reviewer changes a segment they can now record why, which keeps the review history useful long after the project closes.
- Review
Project share links and a comment overview
Create a share link for a project from the project page, and see its open comments gathered in one place.
- Quality checks
One-click fix for a common Trados import error
When XLIFF QA finds dangling key references that stop SDL Trados from importing a file, you can now repair them in one step and download the corrected file.
- Quality checks
Terminology decisions in the QA report
Where one term was rendered differently across files, the QA report now groups those findings into decisions, each showing every rendering and where it came from.
- Quality checks
A cross-project glossary with web usage checks
The glossary now brings terms from all your projects into one searchable view, flags a source term that two projects translate differently, and can check how a target term is used on the web in its locale.
- Files
Clearer uploads
Empty or oversized files are caught before anything is sent, rejections are explained in plain English or Chinese, and a live analysis card summarises the file you just added.
- Files
Preview DOCX and XLSX deliverables
Word and Excel deliverables can be previewed in the browser, so you can check the result before downloading it.
- Files
WebVTT subtitles
WebVTT is now handled as its own format, keeping cue settings, speaker tags and NOTE blocks intact alongside the translated text.
- Files
Image Studio applies your text edits to the image
Replacement text entered for detected regions is now written back into the image itself.
- Account
Pay by card
Credit packages can be bought directly on the pricing page with secure card checkout, with your balance updated once the payment is confirmed.
More control over Translation Memory
- Quality checks
Add Translation Memory segments by hand
Known source and target pairs can be added to Translation Memory directly, not only harvested from completed tasks.
- Quality checks
Match percentage for fuzzy Translation Memory hits
When a segment reuses a fuzzy Translation Memory match, its similarity percentage is shown next to the segment.