Store hotword and glossary definitions in a database for easy retrieval from
ToolBook.
Goodbye Glossary Books
No longer do you need to store your definitions in a special
glossary ToolBook file. Hotword Connection manages your definitions, displays
your popup definitions, and implements your glossary.
Special Tools
Hotword Connection has special author-level tools for creating the database
based on your ToolBook file. ToolBook Translation System and Hotword Connection
then have special “Translator” applications for creating and editing your other
source databases field by field, caption by caption, and definition by
definition. You can even send the Translator applications onto your translation
team!
Hotword Connection Price
| Description |
Price |
| Hotword Connection |
$595
|
| 1 year Hotword Connection technical support (email only) |
$145
|
Educational and multiple-copy discounts are
available.
Comments
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Congrats to all concerned with the programming, etc. Just successfully demo-ed it to those-I-must-obey and they were very impressed with its speed and ease of use.
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I tested the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Chinese (PRC) and Thai. All worked perfectly! Everything imported back into ToolBook just fine! Since we had not been able to use ToolBook for double-byte language content, we have built up a library of other tools that we use depending on the type of courses we are building. Now we should be able to eliminate one or more of these other applications which will make up the cost savings to purchase the TTS.
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Important things to note: ONE ToolBook with all languages - a huge file management benefit. Ease of use for your translators.
If somewhere down the line you find that you need a new language - no problem. You are all set up to very easily add the new language assuming that you can find someone to do the translation. If you have media that also needs to be translated, Platte Canyon has a similar product for media. (They sell a bundled connection package for under $2000.)
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Here is another example of how we use Content connection: Our programs are geared toward manufacturing companies, but the topics are also relevant for service companies, but require a "translation." No problem... we handle it just like a foreign translation. Extend this idea to doing "custom" versions of programs for various customer groups/types to meet specific needs and you have a very powerful tool for under $1,000.
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We use the TB Connection products from Platte Canyon (actually just finishing up an English to Portuguese project :-). We primarily use Content Connection, but also Media Connection for graphics with text in them. They work very well and our translators (Portuguese and Chinese) both like using them.
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I've used TB Connection for a very large project, a math application in Danish that needed to be translated into Norwegian. And it is a very very cool tool indeed. Another side effect besides translating is that you could use it to speed up development by creating "template" applications. So instead of different languages, you could "translate" from one level to another (a Physics app from 5th to 6th grade and so on.) Doing it this way allows your subject matter experts to create new courses based on the same "framework" as one original book. And they don't even need ToolBook to do so. This puts some restrictions on the structure of the new files, so it won't work on all applications. But it is a very cheap/quick way to get stuff done. (BTW I don't work for Platte Canyon:-), I just think it's a cool tool).