Lingoes is a desktop multi-lingual text translation software for Windows. There are 2 versions of Lingoes, namely the freeware version and the paid version. As usual, the paid version offers more features but the free version does too restrictive either and still provide users with numbers of great translation functions.
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At a glance, most people would have an impression that Lingoes is very much similar to Babylon dictionary software. It can't be helped though since they are indeed share some similarities, up to certain extent. However Lingoes has its own uniqueness too that sets it apart from Babylon dictionary, thus it is unfair to say that it had copied the concept from Babylon. Besides, any other translation software would appear the some so it's not a big deal and we can't say Lingoes lacks of innovation either.
Unlike Babylon dictionary that emphasizes more on online translation, Lingoes has both online and offline translation balanced and worked together. Currently it supports around 80 languages and there are many offline dictionaries are available for download from Lingoes website. We perform a search for an English dictionary for Latin, an extinct language and surprisingly we managed to find and download it. Thanks to it now we are able to read some texts from Vatican City official website.
Current version of Lingoes is 2.6.2. There are two types of installations available; a Windows installer version and standalone version. The latter would be an ideal choice for those who are always on the move since it can work right from USB drive. Lingoes offers text input translation, word capture translation and selected text translation. All these can be done seamlessly, provide that Lingoes is running in the background.
Performing online translation is where Lingoes do its works fast. Although Lingoes online translation service does not provide translation by itself, it acts as an interface to other available online translation services like Google Translation and Yahoo Translation, as well as several other translation services. During the test, we are quite impressed with the accuracy of translation provided by this software. We tried to translate one page of a Japanese manga it it seemed there is nothing wrong with the translation it provided. We even confirmed it with one of our Japanese friend and even he was impressed by how accurate this translation software can be.
The download size for Lingoes is roughly around 5MB and upon installation, it only takes approximately 12Mb of disk space. Very lightweight and perfect to be a companion for a road warrior who choose to have it in an USB drive. However, our only complain about this software is it will be rendered unusable when a newer version is available, as we call it "version expiry". This is quite annoying since the user is forced to install the newer version when the older one still can work excellent. This is the field where Lingoes developer should really look into.
Overall, Lingoes did its jobs well and has small memory footprint (10MB of system resource). Definitely recommended for those who want an alternative for the existing Babylon dictionary software.
Download Lingoes for free here:
http://www.lingoes.net/en/translator/download.htm
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