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Cute Translator

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET staff on November 16, 2009

Cute Translator lets users translate text between 13 different languages. Although the program does translate text quickly, we found the program's other features frustrating and, in some cases, unusable.

We were met right off the bat with two nonsensical error messages when the program opened. We ignored them, and the program opened without issues. The interface is simple enough, with a box for users to input text and another below it where the translation appears. Translations are completed quickly. The program's extra features, however, are annoying to set up. Users can have text read aloud to them by one of four characters, but first they have to download the characters. And then they have to download each language they want the characters to speak. On top of that, they have to install some other file to get the characters to actually speak aloud. The program does provide the option to download all optional components at once, but this is time-consuming, and it's not made clear from the outset that this is something that needs to be done. We also found that even after completing the downloads, the program couldn't translate between Latin and non-Latin alphabets, rendering six of the languages useless. If there was some way to correct this, the program didn't let us know; the online user manual addressed none of these issues.

Cute Translator has a 15-day trial period. It installs politely but leaves a folder behind upon removal. We do not particularly recommend this program; there are better translators out there.

 
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Publisher's Description

From Authorsoft:

Cute Translator is a powerful handy program to translate text, documents between 53 major languages. Supported languages are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Hungarian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Hebrew, Norwegian, Afrikaans, Albanian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Filipino, Galician, Haitian, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, with new languages being added all the time. Cute Translator makes translation fast. The actual translation sever is online, so you will need an active Internet connection, but you won't have long to wait, even lengthy translation results are returned in seconds. Cute Translator is multilingual speech-enabled, it gets your computer talking to you! You can open documents in Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, TXT, HTML format and get them translated.

What's new in this version: Version 6.01 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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  • 4.0 stars

    "Note to CNET EDITORS!!!!"

    November 24, 2009  |   By nevenp

    Version: Cute Translator 3.32

    Pros

    This CNET review is useless!

    Cons

    This CNET review is useless!

    Summary

    I didn't use the program as I don't need translators, but I'm FURIOUS how CNET EDITORS treat both shareware authors and US READERS!

    What sort of review is this? Are you (EDITORS) here to heal your psychological problems by bashing useless software?
    Or are you (EDITORS) here to provide US, YOUR READERS, with useful information?

    If you're here to provide useful information, then PLEASE, write about useful software. We don't need your ******** about programs that you "do not recommend".

    I used to be The Publisher or Editor in Chief of several magazines in the past 20 years, including some licensee editions from McGraw-Hill and IDG. I must say I'm appalled by recent editorial standards here. I would have expected this in some yellow papers but CNET... really, really sad. I wander what lies ahead.

    Who are you people? "Editors"? "CNET staff"?
    No name to sign the article?
    No wander! It's a garbage, not a review!

    Neven Prasnikar
    Art Plus Marketing & Publishing
    http://www.artplus.hr

    Updated on Nov 30, 2011

    Hi Alan,

    Magazines that I skipped to mention would be McGraw-Hill Licensee, Byte Croatia, IDG Licensee ComputerWorld Croatia. I was appointed Publisher of both. And then there would be some that you would not know where I was Editor-in-Chief.

    Regards,
    Neven Prasnikar

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  • 5.0 stars

    "Very very very gooooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

    May 16, 2007  |   By nasoskrs

    Version: Cute Translator 3.01

    Pros

    it works very good almost perfect even though the text was about art with difficult words to translate GREEK to English

    Cons

    nothing

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