I'm corresponding with a lady off-site (no agency, just emails). I want to translate Russian emails from her, so I'm looking at buying promt. Thing is, there's 7 different versions, $40 - $2000. Any ideas on which one's necessary/adequate?
I don't know how the web service compares with their software packages, but if it works poorly compared to them, then it is not the best advertisement. Anyway, I use it very often.
It is not very good for writing to her -- the many mistakes from an automatic translator make a clumsy letter. But for when you use it translate letters from her, most of the time you will be able to "decode" the screwy ways some things get translated. I also find this dictionary:
http://icecube.berkeley.edu/~dima/stuff/rus/
usefu l for looking up words. If promt gives you a crazy translation, you can use the dictionary to help find the alternate (intended) meaning.
we have some software for sale on our site but the free translation works just as good. buy a cheep dictionary from ebay for words that dont seem to translate. pm for web address
I purchased the next the latest version, 7, on eBay for around $30. It is a good program and has no limitations as to size of the text to be translated, a major problem using the online versions.
I use the free internet translation web sites: Google translate, Translate SDL, Yahoo babble and translation2.paralink.com. If I think something dosen't translate correctly on Google I compare it to the other sites. Also, don't translate your messages to her from English into Russian... tell your woman to use any of several internet translation sites that are available to her. She will most likely know where to find them.
$2000 for Promt? Incredible, for that sum you can learn Russian or buy a human interpreter))) Actually here in Ukraine nobody pays for soft, you can download for free any soft you need and if I tell someone here that something like Promt can cost 2000 they will laugh at me :)
I think it's actually the functionality you pay for with the top version (as you type translation, built into your browser etc). I guess it's useful if you're doing that kind of work, but still - sheesh! Shake only costs $350, and that's the sfx used on stuff like Lord Of The Rings.