Editorial Review:Amazon.com Product Description:The Universal Translator Deluxe (UTD) is a breakthrough in global communications. With the push of a button or a voice command, you can now communicate with the world. So sophisticated it's used by the U.S.Government, the UT Deluxe includes 33 languages. The new interface makes it easy enough for a child to use. Pull information off the Internet or another application by dragging and dropping text, then translate it with a single click. As you speak into your microphone or headset, your words appear on the screen. You can also hear your foreign e-mail spoken to you in English. When you translate formatting, links, and graphics, they remain intact as your original text. This new version even supports the newest in Web-page creation, including dynamic HTML, XML, and cascading sheets.
Customer Reviews
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It's an early translator and it shows
While it might have been considered "decent" in 1999 or 2000, it just doesn't really stack up to todays translation machines. It is decent in english to spanish, french and german... probably compriable to babelfish(free online translator). However for most other languages this thing is a complete mess and does a few poor job, missing many words or in some cases entire lines. Also the company who made it "languageforce" seems to have gone out of business. It seems to work on Vista even though it isn't made for it, and the interface kinda looks like it was made for windows 98 or something. I recommend skipping this thing and getting Power Translator 11.
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TOTAL RIP OFF
THIS PROGRAM IS JUST JUNK! To protect yourself & your money DO NOT BUY THIS PROGRAM. It does nothing it says it can do. All you are buying is a program made of lies.
There are other programs you can get that will work better than this on for the money. This is just a rip-off.
Plus if you have Windows XP, it will not work.
Buyer Beware!
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A Rip Off
Dont waste your money they have no after sales service address.
Someone is making money out of a product that has no return address. Will not work on XP.
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Shockingly poor quality
I tried using this product to make a rough translation of a few articles. I hoped that I could then just read through them, correct a few errors and be done. The results were however of shockingly poor quality. It translated sentences like "If this was working, there wouldn't be a problem" to Dutch and when I translate back to English they read "This working there not it be problem" which didn't make any more sense than it did in Dutch. As you can see it costs more time to correct the mistakes than to just translate it manually. It can't even be used to understand a foreign text correctly because the syntax and tenses are jumbled seemingly randomly. Very poor program, but at least a brave attempt at a very complex problem. Also interesting to learn from their mistakes if you intend to make a similar program yourself.
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Strange situations
I bought the Deluxe version of this product for the Korean translations. I have never had problems and when I tested it in Korean, I typed a complicated sentence and asked my wife(who is full blooded Korean, little english skills) what it said, she stated exactly what I typed. I hid what I typed so she did not know. When I asked about the level two for the deluxe version, they sent me the level 2 Korean at cost but stated that my deluxe was outdated for that level and sent me a full version of 2000 without extra cost. I did not know at the time what had happened and questioned them on it. They said it was not a mistake, the updated 2000 version was compliments for purchasing their product. Even the ocr works great with every peripheral I have installed. My only complaint was, that you have to use an American OS to install so I could not give the extra copies to my niece(korean) no english skills since she has Korean windows. The rebate that they offered to me was for a free level two version of any language I wanted, which I got in Japanese since some korean is based on japanese/chinese. It even gave me access to the chinese at no extra cost. This was for the deluxe version but would release in 2000 as well. I am surprised to hear of all the problems everyone else has had. I own several Korean language programs and this one is the best in translations. Korean is very hard to write translation programs for but this one did alot more than I expected. I just wish they could come up with a level 3 like the other languages but being in Korea, I know how hard that is. Even the Koreans have had trouble creating a language translator until recently. Within the last few months but even that is still touristy, not business-like.
