WhiteSmoke has announced their new “hybrid” product, WhiteSmoke 2011, one interface which includes the WhiteSmoke Translator, Writer, Dictionary and Templates to allow for maximum efficiency and ease of use.
See: PR Newswire
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Feb 25, 2011
WhiteSmoke launches all-in-one writing solution, combining the WhiteSmoke Translator and Writer into one
Source: PR Newswire
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I upgraded to the new WhiteSmoke All-In-One Writing Solution, and I have to say I'm loving the WhiteSmoke Translator. It provides me with accurate translations, as well as corrects my grammar and spelling errors. For me the best part is that it also offers suggestions of how to improve my writing. I highly recommend it.
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:39
Swedish to English
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The provision of "accurate translations", correction of "grammar and spelling errors" and suggestions of how to "improve my writing" are not very relevant to professionals.
I may have a habit of being a b... See more
The provision of "accurate translations", correction of "grammar and spelling errors" and suggestions of how to "improve my writing" are not very relevant to professionals.
I may have a habit of being a bit suspicious, but I get a feeling you might be connected with the company behind this software. ▲ Collapse
Czech Republic
Local time: 15:39
French to English
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The demo video on WhiteSmoke's site shows a paragraph from a news article being translated from Russian into English. It only appears for about a second, but it's enough to notice the translation quality. Not only does it lag far behind Google Translate (which in itself is far from accurate), it doesn't even transliterate unknown words from the Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin one. Two thumbs down. Alas, WhiteSmoke is WhiteSmokeAndMirrors.
Poland
Local time: 15:39
Polish to English
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I may have a habit of being a bit suspicious, but I get a feeling you might be connected with the company behind this software.
The topic indeed looks like whisper marketing ad.
I cannot say anything about quality of this particular CAT, but I had used WhiteSmoke spell checker (not particularly complicated software, I believe) and decided to abandon it due to poor functionality
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I'm sorry if the title of my post t... See more
I'm sorry if the title of my post threw you off. I'm new to this forum, and I thought since I was commenting on an article about the software it was a relevant title. I wanted to share that in my experience so far the software has saved me a lot of work and time, but it's just my experience and you're obviously entitled to feel differently.
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Poland
Local time: 15:39
Polish to English
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The demo video on WhiteSmoke's site shows a paragraph from a news article being translated from Russian into English. It only appears for about a second, but it's enough to notice the translation quality. Not only does it lag far behind Google Translate (which in itself is far from accurate), it doesn't even transliterate unknown words from the Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin one. Two thumbs down. Alas, WhiteSmoke is WhiteSmokeAndMirrors.
If the software offers only "Word-to-word translation" in Russian-English pair
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