--- Forwarded Message from [log in to unmask] (Kathleen March) --- >From: [log in to unmask] (Kathleen March) >To: [log in to unmask] >Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 06:23:04 -0700 >Subject: Re: #6388Translation software >References: <[log in to unmask]> >Organization: University of Maine [log in to unmask],InetGW2 writes: >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. There is absolutely no reliable software for this and the results you get are embarrassing as well as often incomprehensible. You need real people. Kathleen March -- Kathleen March Professor of Spanish; Director, Critical Languages Program Dept. Modern Languages & Classics, University of Maine, Orono ME 04469 tel.: 207-581-2088; fax: 207-581-1832