Trados Publishes Their 2023 Translation Technology Insights Report

Chalfont Saint Peter, UK
3/2/2023 10:00:00 AM

Trados, the industry-leading translation platform by RWS, today announced the results of their 2023 Translation Technology Insights (TTI) report. With 2,076 responses from translation professionals in 108 countries across the entire supply chain, this comprehensive research aims to shed light on the pressures that are being faced across all areas of the translation industry and offers insight into what can be done to tackle them.

This is the third TTI report, following on from the 2016 and 2020 reports, giving us an opportunity to look back to see how more than half a decade has changed adoption of, or attitudes towards, some key technologies. And to look at the current trends that matter as the industry moves forward. 

The report reveals an industry under pressure from:

  • A growing skills shortage: The industry has experienced a downward shift in the overall experience of translation professionals, evident in the data that show those with over 5 years of experience has dropped from 80% in 2020 to 70% in 2023. 
  • Work demands intensify: As the fast-paced translation industry continues to grow, there’s more pressure from increasingly mature customers, many of whom want to translate for different channels, using more project files, in more languages.  
  • The cost, speed, quality conundrum: Overall, translation professionals remain under more pressure to reduce their prices and deliver their work faster, than to improve the quality of their work. 

Under this sustained pressure, the majority of translation professionals continue to feel that they need to improve their ways of working to meet their challenges. But what can be done to tackle it?

  • Attract new talent: To meet growing demand, we need to appeal to the younger generation considering their careers today, who have grown up in a digital age and want to feel that their industry is at the cutting edge by providing an agile, dynamic work environment that uses automation and AI.
  • Work smarter not harder: Adopting translation technology, such as machine translation can boost productivity, collaboration tools and TMSs can streamline tasks, and cloud-based tools offer unparalleled flexibility. 
  • Seek easy-to-use technology: While only 7% of respondents are demanding new software features, they have a strong desire for easy-to-use solutions. Technology vendors should be able to facilitate industry advancement, not only by continuing to make their solutions easier to use, but by finding better ways to offer training and support.

The full report with many more insights is available here Translation Technology Insights 2023.

For more information about the report or Trados and its translation technology, please reach out to us: Contact us

About Trados 

Trados helps translation professionals unlock global understanding. By offering a range of secure, intelligent translation solutions, we enable everyone across the global translation supply chain to streamline, centralize, and manage their translation work efficiently, thereby reducing costs while delivering higher quality.

Trados easily integrates into any workflow and is a source of continual innovation to meet your evolving needs. It offers unrivalled flexibility and scalability – backed by insight and support from the industry’s most experienced technology team, serving its largest user community.

About RWS

RWS Holdings plc is a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property services. Through content transformation and multilingual data analysis, our combination of AI-enabled technology and human expertise helps our clients to grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language.


Our purpose is unlocking global understanding. By combining cultural understanding, client understanding and technical understanding, our services and technology assist our clients to acquire and retain customers, deliver engaging user experiences, maintain compliance and gain actionable insights into their data and content.


Over the past 20 years we’ve been evolving our own AI solutions as well as helping clients to explore, build and use multilingual AI applications. With 40+ AI-related patents and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, we have the experience and expertise to support clients on their AI journey.


We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all of the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.


Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L). 


For further information, please visit: www.rws.com.


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