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--- Forwarded Message from Cindy Tracy <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 09:17:34 -0500
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Cindy Tracy <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6388Translation software
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>


>Our local high school has asked if we know of any software that can
>translate documents from English to Spanish.  The school is now mandated to
>provide many of its documents for parents (handbooks, newsletters, etc) in
>Spanish as well as in English.  He is hoping for an easy, inexpensive way to
>follow this directive.
>
>We have told him we doubt there is any reliable way to do this
>electronically but I was asked to check with the list.

As a reseller of translation software, I get asked this all the time. You 
have to spend $385 for a GOOD program and even then it is particularly easy 
to have a translation document lose its meaning, which is especially bad in 
trying to communicate with parents. You can translate the document back 
into English for a rough check, but I really only recommend using the 
software for a rough draft and having a bilingual person proof it. Once 
done, you can customize the software so that it is correct the next time, 
but you cannot rely on any program 100% without changing it some.

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