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Faster translation results with LookAhead

Enabling LookAhead gives you fast access to translation memory (TM) search results.

TM search results are normally retrieved per active segment or string, namely the segment or string you currently work on, at various speeds. LookAhead improves the retrieval speed of TM search results, by caching the lookup results for the next few segments.

Once your source text is loaded in Trados Studio, the application starts matching source text strings against the available translation resources (TMs, termbases or machine translation) in the background for the next two segments after the current one. As a result, you are instantly provided with translation hits for each segment that has matching translation results.

To enable fast translation results, go to File > Options > Editor > Automation and select Enable LookAhead.

Having LookAhead enabled may impact your Machine Translation subscription quota in exceptional cases. For more information, consult the LookAhead and the MT quota help topic.

LookAhead pre-fetches term recognition results. This means that term recognition results are displayed faster for slower server-based termbases or termbases stored on network drives.

If you add new terms, these are not recognized for the next two segments.