Translator Widget EXTREMELY Slow

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Translator Widget EXTREMELY Slow

Is anyone else having this problem with the Systran Translator Widget in Dashboard? It works fine, but it takes around 15 seconds to simply translate the word "hello" from English to any other language. Is it supposed to take that long? Does this work faster for anyone else? I understand that it goes out to the internet to actually do the translation, but it still seems like it takes an awfully long time.

20"/2GHz Intel Core Duo iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.7), 2GB 667MHz DDR2-SDRAM | 500GB SATA HDD | ATI Radeon X1600/256MB

Posted on Sep 20, 2006 6:05 PM

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Answer 1

mhunter

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Sep 20, 2006 6:19 PM in response to Ralph The Magician

Hello,

15 seconds is not unreasonable at all for you to wait for information to be sent to a 3rd-party site, translated, and then sent back and displayed. That is quite reasonable and normal.

I hope this helps.

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Answer 2

mhunter

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Sep 20, 2006 6:21 PM in response to mhunter

Hello,

Just for comparison, I just translated the word "Hello" on my system, and it took about 13-seconds watching the second-hand on my clock.

So, looks like you're pretty much right in the normal range.

I hope this helps.

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Answer 3

Sep 20, 2006 9:41 PM in response to mhunter

That's pretty much what I wanted to know. Thanks!

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Answer 4

mhunter

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Sep 20, 2006 9:43 PM in response to Ralph The Magician

You're quite welcome. Glad to help 🙂

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Answer 5

Sep 22, 2006 11:32 PM in response to Ralph The Magician

Futher inspection has shown that 15 seconds is, in fact, way too long. With a clean installation of OS X, the widget only takes 1-2 seconds to respond.

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Answer 6

Sep 24, 2006 6:40 PM in response to Ralph The Magician

It's broken, AGAIN. It's back to taking 15 seconds to work.

I don't understand this at all. After a clean install, it works almost instantly every time, and clicking the switch button always works. Then something gets messed up and it takes 15 seconds to work, and you have to press the switch button just for it to translate anything at all.

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Answer 7

Sep 26, 2006 5:34 AM in response to Ralph The Magician

My translations (when the widget worked) could take up to a minute. I have a 15/2 megabit fiber internet connection, so there's no excuse for this huge delay. Another annoying development, is that the widget now seems to be "broken". Seems to have happened after the airport security update restart. Will have to run disk utility from my other machine to fix it. It ***** too, because the optical drive bezel on my machine was bent "out of the box" for some reason, so i can't put the software discs in.

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