Universal Translator Deluxe

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Summary: A Rip Off
Review: 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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Summary: Unimpressive
Review: I bought it mainly to assist in translation of my rusty Spanish. I spend more time updating the dictionary when I use it than I do actually translating with it. There's no throwing away your language dictionaries with this program.

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Summary: I want my money back!
Review: I bought it through a promotion from AOL and I want my money back!

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Summary: Strange situations
Review: 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asked about the level two for the deluxe version, they sent me the level 2 Korean at cost but stated that my deluxe was outdated for that level and sent me a full version of 2000 without extra cost.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.

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Summary: translation of slavic language
Review: I found this software pathetic for use with the Slavic languages. Some of the most basic words such as 'good' in Slovak could not be translated. In Czech, 'good' tranlated into 'best'. Totally forget translation of sentences, it cannot do single words. For some reason translation into Russian would show up as Spanish. The speech synthesis was so bad it was actually funny. It apparently uses English phonetics no matter what language is being translated. This results is completely unrecognizable speech. If I hadn't received a full refund from COMPUSA, I would be very upset right now. By the way, don't expect any sympathy from the developer.

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Summary: Pathetic
Review: I own a small motel and bought this software to use to give our Spanish speaking employees instructions. When I could get the software to work the employees could not understand the Spanish translations. It also was not compatable with the reservation software that I use and blew it off my computer. I had to reload the reservation software after loading the language translator. Then when I shut the computer down at night it blew my reservation software off again. The technical support was absolutely useless. The only thing they would offer was a program for over $200 that they said would work better. When I tried to get my money back I was told to forget it. Don't buy this unless you have money to throw into the trash.

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Summary: Horrible
Review: I purchased this same program through compuserve. I never received my rebate. I found it difficult to use and the people I sent the messages to responded in english that the messages I sent in their language was indecipherable

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Summary: Shockingly poor quality
Review: 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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Summary: Bad. Really, really bad.
Review: It's too complicated and too time consuming to use. I read the other reviews about only being able to translate one word at the time...I'm impressed. I can't even get that far. And on top of all of that, they were supposed to send me a rebate...but it's been 4 months since I sent in my paperwork. Now I can't even get their stupid little rocket icon from showing up twice on my opening page and interfering with another language program (that actually works!). Save your money!

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Summary: Bad. Really, really bad.
Review: It's too complicated and too time consuming to use. I read the other reviews about only being able to translate one word at the time...I'm impressed. I can't even get that far. And on top of all of that, they were supposed to send me a rebate...but it's been 4 months since I sent in my paperwork. Now I can't even get their stupid little rocket icon from showing up twice on my opening page and interfering with another language program (that actually works!). Save your money!