Software:Lingoes
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 Lingoes showing the Appendices configuration window | |
| Developer(s) | Kevin Yau |
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| Stable release | 2.9.2
/ August 16, 2014 |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Machine translation |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | lingoes |
Lingoes is a dictionary and machine translation app. Lingoes was created in China. Lingoes is often compared to its competitor Babylon[1] because of similarities in their GUI, functionalities and most importantly being freeware.
Features and expandability
Dictionaries and encyclopedias can be installed on Lingoes in the form of new add-ons to extend its functionality. Add-ons for Wikipedia, Baidu Baike, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, WordNet, MacMillan English Dictionary, Collins English Dictionary and other cross-English dictionaries (e.g. Arabic, French or German) are available in Lingoes' official website.[2]
The program has the ability to pronounce words and install additional text-to-speech engines available for download also through Lingoes' website.
Lingoes also offers a whole-text translation ability using online translation service providers like Google Translate, Yahoo! Babel Fish Translation, SYSTRAN, Cross-Language, Click2Translate, and others. Lingoes offers to translate a text via a mouse-over popup, or by double-clicking the selected text.
Additional tools, termed as appendices in the program, include a currency converter, weights and measure units converter and international time zones converter. Additional ones, such as the periodic table of elements, a scientific calculator, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese conversion utility or a Base64 encoding utility, can be added through the website.
See also
References
- ↑ "Lingoes 2.5.3 beta - On- und Offline-Wörterbuch für 80 Sprachen (in German) (Eng:Lingoes 2.5.3 beta -On- and Offline-dictionary for 80 languages) (a forum thread at www.essential-freebies.de)". http://www.essential-freebies.de/board/viewtopic.php?t=12629. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
- ↑ "Lingoes official website". http://www.lingoes.net/en/translator/index.html. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
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