Can't connect cloud TB to MT in Trados Studio 2021 SR1 - 16.1.5.4270

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I'm exploring MT in Trados Studio (desktop) for the first time after a long time &ndash; using the SDL Machine Translation Cloud Provider app &ndash; and can't connect a termbase to it. When I go to the cloud provider settings in my project, I see "No dictionary available" in the drop-down field for MT Cloud Dictionary. 
 I have Trados Live Essential Freelance and in Trados Live I have a termbase with 2K terms in it (I created it from a tbx conversion of a local TB). 
 One thing that I find suspicious is that nothing is listed in my account under Plans &ndash; just a link that says "Explore our Language Cloud subscription plans". 
 What am I doing wrong?

Paul Filkin · Accepted Answer

Emma Goldsmith 
 You&rsquo;re not doing anything wrong Emma. You just don&rsquo;t know that the termbase you are trying to use is not the type of dictionary you can use in MT Cloud. This feature to use dictionaries requires a dictionary in your MT Cloud Account specifically, it has nothing to do with Trados Live and the Terminoloy solution in there. 
 To use MT Cloud dictionaries you need a paid account and not the free subscription you are using now.

Paul Filkin · Answer

Mats Linder 
 Mats Linder said: I'm trying to investigate this but cannot find anywhere information as to how I sign up for a paid subscription and what such paid options there are. 
 You probably can't. At the moment we don't sell Machine Translation in small packages so we don't have anything available for freelancers. Most freelance translators (not freelancers who are really working as a small agency) will have sufficient MT provided for free within the 500k chars/month and this is borne out by the usage we see. We are going to address this in the near future, but for the time being if you do want to purchase a package the only way to do it is by contacting us through here: 
 https://www.trados.com/products/machine-translation/ 
 Then use the contact us form at the bottom: Also note the "clues" in the wording here - "If your organization requires a more comprehensive solution...". The available paid solutions we offer today are aimed at an Enterprise and not a freelance translator and will be well in excess of the cost of Trados Studio. At the moment we just don't cater for the needs of a freelancer who does more than 500k/month, or who wants to be able to use "dictionaries" to improve the relevance of the NMT they are getting. This will change, and we are working on this and hope to have something available in smaller packages more suited to the needs of a freelance translator soon. 
 The problematic part in our documentation is the use of the word "dictionaries". 
 Mats Linder said: The information given about the CU5 update only seems to indicate that the feature that Emma describes is included in that update, which -- I have learned both here and elsewhere -- is incorrect. 
 It's not incorrect because that the feature is indeed included. It says this: 
 
 If I look in Studio since CU5 I see this: 
 
 This ability to add a "Glossaries" was not there before. It was only possible using the MT Cloud plugin on the appstore. Clicking on the link (where available) takes me to this: 
 
 A list of the available "glossaries" I have in my MT Cloud account. 
 There are two important things to note here: 
 
 "MT Cloud account" and NOT "Language Cloud account". 
 The use of the word "glossary" is a mistake in Studio and in the release notes. It should be "dictionary" which is the correct name used in the "MT Cloud" account, like this: 
 
 I hope this clarifies things for you a little more?

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Can't connect cloud TB to MT in Trados Studio 2021 SR1 - 16.1.5.4270

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