Translation variants
Translation isn’t always one answer. Transept lets you hold several and choose between them — at the block level and within a sentence.
What is the difference between a block version and a sentence alternative?
Each block can hold several versions — useful for comparing a literal pass with a freer one, or handing a client two options. One version is active, and that’s what shows in exports.
Within a block, each sentence has a current text plus an alternatives list. Swap any alternative into place inline. An alternative may sometimes cover the previous or next sentence too, when merging reads better — the variant card shows a “Merges with previous / next” badge so the scope is clear before you apply it.
Does keeping several versions or alternatives cost extra words?
Keeping them is free. Words are spent only when a block is translated, so generating a new block version is billed like any translation — but storing versions, comparing them, switching between them, and swapping a sentence alternative into place all cost nothing.
Which version of a block ends up in my exports and my translation memory?
The active one, in both cases. Exports use the active version, and Transept adds a block’s active (approved) translation to your translation memory automatically. The versions and alternatives you did not pick stay on the block for you to compare and switch to later.
Does Transept remember which alternatives I rejected?
It can show them to the AI. Translation memory’s AI context settings include an option to pass up to 2 earlier alternatives of a segment alongside a match, and a block’s Memory chip lists any previously rejected wording behind a translation — so you can see what the model was told you had already turned down. See Translation memory.
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