English-To-Spanish Text Translation

Tracy McClarnon

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Jan 29, 2002, 9:54:30 AM1/29/02

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Hello,

What is the best approach (other than hiring a Spanish speaking person) to
incorporating English-To-Spanish Text Translation into my application?

I'm currently using Delphi 6 Enterprise.

Thank you,

Tracy McClarnon

Christopher Latta

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Jan 29, 2002, 10:44:57 AM1/29/02

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You could try the Babelfish webservice at http://www.xmethods.com/

Christopher Latta

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José León Serna

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Jan 29, 2002, 11:23:00 AM1/29/02

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Hello:

> You could try the Babelfish webservice at http://www.xmethods.com/

Well, I think a can place here a <BG>.

Now serious, you cannot use any automated service to translate english to
spanish or spanish to english. Are so different. The best translator I have
used is babylon because it was oriented to computers and internet and that
is my bussiness, but in some cases it was quite funny.

Joystick -> Manubrio (which in spanish is something like pennis ;-))) )

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Dave Nottage

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Jan 29, 2002, 4:38:34 PM1/29/02

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"Christopher Latta" wrote:
> You could try the Babelfish webservice at http://www.xmethods.com/

Hate to burst your bubble Chris, but the EN->ES part of babelfish is
toast last time I checked, which was a couple of days ago.

All the other translations work, though. Weird.

Someone should tell them <g>

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Tracy McClarnon

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Jan 29, 2002, 8:44:18 PM1/29/02

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It has been working for me all day. Although, I don't know if I want to
depend on babelfish.

Thanks a lot guys.

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Dave Nottage

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Jan 30, 2002, 1:05:12 AM1/30/02

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"Tracy McClarnon" wrote:
> It has been working for me all day. Although, I don't know if I want
to
> depend on babelfish.

I've just tested English->Spanish. It still fails. All the others work.

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Espen Schaathun

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Jan 30, 2002, 3:12:32 AM1/30/02

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English2Spanish works just great here today. Worked yesterday too. Might be
something at your end??

I would NOT depend on babelfish for my translations, get help from a
professional translator. If you have used resourcestrings and used one unit
for all the text, it should be a simple job for a pro. translator.
Translators usually get paid by the word.

Or you could do the job yourself:
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/spa.html

Espen Schaathun

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Dave Nottage

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Jan 30, 2002, 4:33:21 AM1/30/02

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"Espen Schaathun" wrote:
> English2Spanish works just great here today. Worked yesterday too.
Might be
> something at your end??

Hm.. I guess so, but it is odd that all the others work. I have even
tested with more than one SOAP implementation.

> I would NOT depend on babelfish for my translations...

I dont <g> It's just for testing purposes.

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Christopher Latta

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Jan 30, 2002, 5:29:54 AM1/30/02

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Espen Schaathun <espen_s...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I would NOT depend on babelfish for my translations, get help from a
> professional translator.

Sure, but the original request was for a way of incorporating
English-To-Spanish Text Translation into the application. I assumed that
this meant on the fly translation, so some sort of translator program is
required. If it is just for static text, always get someone who knows the
language.

Christopher Latta