Amiga PowerPC & AmigaNG-Konkurrenzsysteme

1. More details regarding the planned fulltext translater warpTrans

In the geginnings, warpTrans will be able of translating from English to German and backwards and contain an expandable dictionary for 480,000 words and 46,000 expressions.

The feature, which is expected to be the most remarkable, is the possibility to process not just written texts in any important format (ASCII, Wordworth, RTF, HTML, YAM eMails etc.), but also the contents of sound files (IFF, AIFF, and WAVE) and to save in ASCII or HTML. warpTrans is supposed to have a high recognition ratio. A newly developped speech output system (English and German) with sound card support (direct or using AHI) is also planned.

warpTrans will be made available for PowerPC-Amigas only and use WarpUp, the PowerPC solution of Haage & Partner. To get optimum power, an Amiga with PPC603e/200 MHz, 32 MByte RAM, CD-ROM drive and sound card is recommended.

The planned release date is this years autumn. The price will be approx. 80.00 Euros, but an experienced programmer is searched for, who will be responsable for integration the graphical user interface. Furthermore there are beta testers wanted as well as translators for the software and the Internet homepage (especially for English, French, Italian, east european and scandinavian languages). Ideas regarding warpTrans are also very welcom (eMail: ramboy@w-9.de). More informations regarding the software can be found on the URLhttp://www.w-9.de/HTML/warptrans.html.