English to Spanish Translation Software Mac & PC
Carolyn J. Williams
Has anyone had any personal experience or have any knowledge of reliable,
and accurate English to Spanish translation software for Mac and PC .
The office staff for our related services group is asking me if I knew of
any programs. I thought the subscribers to the EDTECH group would have
the answer if there is an accurate program and where to get information. We are
currently using more Macs , but are gradually going to PCs , so software
for both platforms is needed.
Thanks in advance for any information.
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Carolyn J. Williams
Graduate Student
Arizona State University
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Eduard L. Frerking
Yes. I have. First of all, nothing beats a real live individual for good
translations.
There are essentially 3 categories of translation applications. The prices
also reflects this.
0$ to $150 I consider these almost useless, EX: Belitz, Parsons, Power
Translator.
$250 to $500 These do a mediocore job. The translations will need some
fixing up. Most of these have problems with paragraph content. They
translate based on small phrases. Most of the time, these produce
translation, if left unalter, will get the message accross. EX: Power
Translator PRO.
$1000 and up: These do a vastly better job. They 99% of the time produce
something that will be understandable. They make very few mistakes in
grammar. However, they are mistakes in word choice. You get what you pay
for. EX: SysTran.
IHTH,
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Carolyn Williams <c...@asu.edu> wrote:
>Has anyone had any personal experience or have any knowledge of reliable,
>and accurate English to Spanish translation software for Mac and PC .
>The office staff for our related services group is asking me if I knew of
>any programs. I thought the subscribers to the EDTECH group would have
>the answer if there is an accurate program and where to get information.
>We are
>currently using more Macs , but are gradually going to PCs , so software
>for both platforms is needed.
Eduard L. Frerking
Sunnyvale, CA
mailto:hu...@surf.com
mailto:hu...@svpal.org
Spanish Kindergarten Teacher
Hillsdale Year Round School Network Admin
Bruce Carter
At 1:42 AM -0400 4/26/97, Carolyn J. Williams wrote:
>Has anyone had any personal experience or have any knowledge of reliable,
>and accurate English to Spanish translation software for Mac and PC .
>The office staff for our related services group is asking me if I knew of
>any programs. I thought the subscribers to the EDTECH group would have
>the answer if there is an accurate program and where to get information.
>We are
>currently using more Macs , but are gradually going to PCs , so software
>for both platforms is needed.
Globalink has a product called PowerTranslator for Spanish, German, and
French that is supposed to be pretty good. A friend of mine used to work
there until the owner of the company sold it out from under everyone, so I
don't know if development on the products is still ongoing. They are,
however, advertised in the latest MacWarehouse catalog, and they do have a
web site at:
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Bruce Carter, Division Head Instructional Development Division
SMITC, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725 (208)385-1851@voice
mailto:bca...@mentor.idbsu.edu (208)385-1856@fax
http://mentor.idbsu.edu/BruceCarter/home.html (208)384-2084@pager
EDTECH Editor-Eiffert
From: "Andrew B. Wolff" <ab...@psu.edu>
There is still not a satisfactory Spanish translator available for a
person that's not versed enough in Spanish to be able to decide on the
right words where syntactical and polysemic ambiguities sneak in.
Furthermore, if you're good enough to make those decisions accurately
100% of the time, you could probably translate shorter documents more
quickly yourself. There are many translators available on the market
that are good products--the Rosetta Stone series, for example; however,
if your translation must be clean, don't trust any of the available
software in any language. It's just not good enough yet.
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andrew...@intelligencia.com
andrew...@usa.net
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From: Paul and Cynthia Krull <pck...@willowtree.com>
Doesn't the CD Rosetta stone do this?
Cynthia Krull
Technology Coordinator
Lake Mills Comm School (IA)
pck...@willowtree.com
ckr...@lake-mills.k12.ia.us