In-country Review Explained
In-country review (ICR) is an important quality assurance step in the localization process, which is very often performed outside of a translation tool, making the whole process manual and time-consuming.
memoQ’s in-country review tool was designed to be user-friendly for subject-matter experts (SMEs) who are not necessarily familiar with the tools used in the localization industry, and to enhance collaboration throughout the whole translation-review-validation cycle.
In fact, the ICR tool is fully integrated with the memoQ ecosystem. Despite being a separate web app, PMs can manage ICR users and the ICR review step directly within memoQ projects—both from the desktop client and in memoQweb. This includes project templates and even WS API support for integration with BMS systems like Plunet and FlowFit. As a result, ICR users can access project resources such as term bases and reference files without needing to consult Excel glossary exports or open files from emails sent by the PM.
Other ICR workflows outside memoQ (PDF annotation, monolingual review, 2-column RTF export, etc.) not only add complexity and extra work for PMs, but are also prone to human errors, potential technical issues, and are more vulnerable to external security risks.
Having the in-country review step done through memoQ’s ICR tool is a major time saver for all project participants and a game changer when time is of the essence. Did someone say “short deadlines?”
Time stamps:
0:00 - Introduction
4:26 - In-country review tool demo
32:16 - Accessibility
35:05 - Q&A
35:22 - Q1: I know there will be a separate webinar about PDF-Preview in the translation editor. Will it be possible also in the ICR-Tool? SMEs often want to check on the final, layouted version so it would be useful.
36:03 - Q2: Reference files: Where were they added?
36:34 - Q3: Does ICR tool work already in the MemoQ, or will it be available in the new version?
36:58 - Q4: What is the difference between an ICR and a normal reviewer?
37:37 - Q5: Can the ICR user deliver without confirming all segments first?
38:13 - Q6: Is it possible for the ICR user to also see matches from the translation memory within the ICR tool?
38:49 - Q7: Is there a way to remove the errors after you address them? It might be hard to know if you've addressed them all if there are many.
40:35 - Q8: The project had 5 issues. When you fixed some of them, the number of issues stayed the same. Did I miss something or the number of QA issues does not change?
41:12: - Q9: Can the ICR users and ICR configurations be used through Plunet? If so, from which version of Plunet?
42:18 - Q10: Normally we have a Translator , then a Reviser (Reviwer 1) before we send to the a client (ICR) which would make the Client Reviewer 2. When the client finishes Reviewer2 step, what happens next as our team would want to review the Client's changes (as they are not always correct). Is there a 4th step?
42:46 - Q11: Can you configure and assign ICR users from the desktop app or in WebTrans only?