By editorial@silicon.com, 20 November 1998 17:45
NEWS Language barriers between Internet users could be a thing of the past, thanks to Uni-verse's real-time chat translation software, Diplomat 3.0, launched at Comdex 98 this week. The company claims multilingual conversations over a text-based Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server are routed via the Windows-based software and translated into the chosen language in a fraction of a second. Currently the software supports translation between English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Web Client, an HTML version of the product is also available and can be embedded into any Web page. Uni-verse is aiming the software at a variety of markets: business, government, education, travel, software development and translation. The San Cremente-based online translation technology specialist, is in the process of developing Chinese, Japanese and Russian versions. Diplomat costs $39.95 whilst the Web Client version is free. A $9.95 monthly charge applies to both.
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