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 a list of alternatives. Click a sentence and its alternatives appear just below the paragraph, with the words that would change in orange. Point at one to see it in place in the paragraph, and click it to apply it. The original wording and your own edit stay on the list, so you can always go back.
A sentence with no alternatives yet gets three a moment after you click into it, free. For more, press More variants under the list: it costs that sentence’s words, 1 credit per word, and the price is on the button. Alternatives always use the Fast model, whatever model the block is set to.
An alternative may cover the previous or next sentence too, when merging reads better. Its row then shows Merges with previous or Merges with next, so the scope is clear before you apply it.
With the keyboard, Alt+Enter (⌥↩ on a Mac) moves into the list: arrow keys move between alternatives, Enter applies one, and Esc takes you back to the text.
Does keeping several versions or alternatives cost extra credits?
Keeping them is free. Generating costs credits: a new block version is billed like any translation. The first alternatives for a sentence are free, and More variants costs that sentence’s words, 1 credit per word. Storing versions, comparing them, switching between them, and swapping an alternative into place 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.
Still stuck? Ask Literess in the app, or write to support@transept.ai.