Getting Started
This walks through a first translation, assuming the add-ins are installed.
1. Set up the translation engine
Open the Resource console → MT settings. Create or edit an MT settings resource, and on the Services tab tick Supervertaler.
Click Configure plugin and fill in:
| Provider | Anthropic, OpenAI or Google |
| Model | a short list of the models worth recommending for that provider, with a line on each saying what it is for. Fetch list asks the provider for its full catalogue and Show all models adds it underneath – that is where to look for a model released after your copy of Supervertaler was built. The box also takes anything typed, for a gateway or a local model |
| API key | your own key for that provider. All Supervertaler products share one key file at C:\Users\<you>\Supervertaler\settings\api-keys.json, so a key you have already set in Supervertaler for Trados or Sidekick is picked up here and you can leave this empty – see Prompt Library & Editor |
| Endpoint | leave blank unless you are using a local model or a gateway |
| Segments per request | how many segments go into one request during Pre-translate (memoQ hands the plugin about 10 at a time, so values above 10 make no difference) |
| Prompt | a prompt from the shared library, or (instructions below) to type your own – see Prompt Library & Editor |
| Pre-translate via Claude Desktop (MCP) | leave unticked unless you translate through Claude Desktop – see MCP Server. Also in the prompt editor under Settings |
Press Test connection. It translates a short sentence for real, so it exercises the key, the model name and the endpoint together – a green result means everything works.
2. Turn on learning
Still in the MT settings resource, go to the Settings tab and set Self-learning MT to Supervertaler.
This is what makes memoQ hand Supervertaler each segment as you confirm it. Without it the engine still translates, but it will not learn from your work. See Self-learning translation.
3. Translate
Open a document. With Translation results set to Always, landing on a segment fetches a translation automatically; it appears in the Translation results pane, labelled with the provider and model it came from.
To translate in bulk, use Preparation → Pre-translate with Use machine translation enabled.
4. Confirm as you go
Confirm segments as you normally would. Each confirmation is remembered, and later segments that resemble it are translated with your wording in front of the model.
The effect is most visible on a document with recurring phrasing: settle a term in segment 3 and segment 40 will use it.
Next
- Terminology – add a glossary, including forbidden terms
- Self-learning translation – what is remembered, and for how long