Language translation for business. (Globalink Power Translator Professional) (At Work)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)

Macworld, April, 1994 by Littman, Dan

Computers can't generate orig-inal human spoken or written language. Not yet. But they are getting better at translating language, at least such nonidiomatic language as business correspondence and technical documents. Globalink is now shipping translation products for the Mac that the company claims are accurate enough to reduce a translation project of several days to an hour or two of cleanup.

Power Translator Professional can read WordPerfect, Word, and text files; and can translate from English to French, German, or Spanish and from those languages to English (it can save only in WordPerfect and text formats). You can edit open files; add specialized dictionaries for translating documents about legal matters, chemicals, banking, automobiles, finance, and...

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