Forms Translation Question/ Mech Eng drowning in IT world

Hello,
I am interning in foreign country right now and have been assigned the task of figuring out how to change a database tool into a multilingual tool.
Some stipulations of the process include:
--One .fmb for all languages.(utilize different .fmx files)
--They want to translate the strings automatically instead of manually because there are very very many things to translate.
I have been looking at the Oracle Translation Builder, Oracle Translation Manager, and TranslationHub. I don't know if these have the required functionality.
Would any of these packages or any others fulfill the required needs?
Excuse my ignorance, this assignment is totally out of my area.
Ciao, Grazie,
Karl

I never used this tool, but maybe it works, here's the description, what it does:
1. What is OTM ?
Oracle translation manager, included in Developer/2000, is a translation tool
that is very usefull when one has to develop multi-lingual applications using
Developer/2000. OTM 2.5 has specifically been designed to provide a solution
for translating the user interface of Forms, Reports and Graphics, but it can
also be used to translate plain text files. In an efficient and cost effective
way OTM allows to translate text components of these applications from its
original language into different other languages.
Regards
Werner

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