Dictionary in ImTranslator Extensions
Dictionary is part of the translation extensions to provide words translations. When a single word is submitted for translation, the Translator turns into the Dictionary and displays alternative translations along with the part of speech and voice. In addition to the translation variants, each dictionary entry displays a set of reverse translations into the original language, if available. To see dictionary’s translations, Dictionary must be enabled in ImTranslator Options. Dictionary is available in ImTranslator application, Pop-up Bubble Translator, and Inline Translator. ImTranslator Dictionary During the dictionary’s translation, ImTranslator automatically switches to the first provider that supports a dictionary. If a translation provider doesn’t have a dictionary’s entry for a searched word, a regular translation will be displayed.The same regular translation will be displayed if a provider doesn’t support a dictionary. The Dictionary covers almost all English language combinations and...
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How to Play Voice in Translation Services
As you know, our Translation Services includes the Text-to-Speech functionality with multimedia contents. This functionality is supported by various players which can stream audio, or execute multimedia contents. Our translation services implement Adobe Flash Player and HTML5 player, and depending on the browsers, the voice can be played by either both players, or only one. The following browsers: Chrome, Opera, Yandex, MS Edge support both players, and you can easily switch between HTML5 player and Flash player on the fly. Just mark the checkbox next to “Enable Flash Version”. The Flash player will stream the voice, display the animated speaking avatar, and highlight the pronounced words. The other browsers, Firefox, Safari and IE11, will steam the voice using Adobe Flash player only. If the Flash player is not enabled in your browser, click on the link “How...
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Voice Feature in Pop-up Bubble Translator
In the latest versions of ImTranslator extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Yandex we added the voice feature in Pop-up Bubble Translator to the original text Even though you cannot see the original text in the Pop-up Bubble Translator, as the pop-up window displays the translation only, you can listen to the original text as well as its translation. listen to the original text by clicking the Speaker icon, or the translation . This feature is currently available for 30 languages. The following voices: American English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, and Spanish are provided by the ImTranslator TTS service. These voices speak up to 1000 characters at a time. These voices: Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Khmer, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese are provided by other...
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How to automatically translate a website?
The new Webpage Translation module allows you to set up an automatic website translation. To set up an automatic website translation, first translate your preferred website to a selected language. choose “Translate this page to” a preferred language from the context menu ImTranslator: Translation, Dictionary, TTS. use the shortcuts keys Alt+P (default) you can also set Webpage Translation on the ImTranslator button on the toolbar to run the translation with one button click The translated page opens with the translation toolbar on the top. Next, open Translation Toolbar Options, and choose the Domain tab. choose the language to translate the websites to this specific language mark the “Always” checkbox save options Next, switch to the Language tab. choose “All” from the “Translate from” language drop-down list mark the “Always” checkbox save options From...
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Save Recent Work
ImTranslator extensions for Chrome and Opera starting from the v.10.55 include the feature “Save recent work”. When you leave or close the translation application, your last work will be saved in the translation window. This feature is very helpful when you are interrupted or accidentally closed the translation application with important work. The option “Save recent work” is enabled by default for ImTranslator application. In the Pop-up Bubble Translator this option is not enabled by default. If you check this option, the Pop-up Bubble will be pinned to the right of the webpage with the translated text displayed in the pop-up window. You can scroll the webpage, copy the text inside the pop-up bubble, listen to the voice, open another tab, the pop-up window will stay open with your latest text until you press the Close...
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Text-to-Speech in ImTranslator
ImTranslator includes the text-to-speech functionality that converts text into voice for 30 languages. You can listen to the original text or its translation. Click the “Listen” icon to initiate the voice. Available voices: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. These voices speak up to 200 characters at a time. In the Advanced Options you can set your preferences which TTS service to use: ImTranslator TTS or an alternative TTS service. By default, the text-to-speech service uses a third-party voice server, which speaks 200 characters per request. If you want to listen a larger text, choose ImTranslator TTS server, which speaks up to 1000 characters at a time, and supports the following voices: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese...
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Translation Comparison for Opera
Translation Comparison for Opera translates words, phrases and texts between more than 90 languages and displays the translations side-by-side. The translator can translates selected text on a webpage, as well as an input text. The number of the translation windows may vary depending on supported providers or your personal...
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How to Compare Translations
Our translation services use various online translation providers: Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, Yandex Translate and Translator. The translation results in these translation services may vary significantly. To find the best translation among these translation providers we developed “Translations Comparison” tools. These services line up the translation providers and displays the translations side-by-side, which makes it easier to determine which translation engine provides best translation result. Compare Online Translators This is a web-based service which translates and compares the translation results between Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, and PROMT-Online. This comparison tool hides the brands and randomizes the positions of the results until you choose the best translation in your opinion. Choosing the best translation by clicking on the I LIKE THIS button, unveils the winner. Use the Back translation feature as a quality check on the original translations. By...
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How to Change Translation Provider
By default the comparison tool displays 3 translation providers lined up in alphabetical order (Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, Translator). The forth translator, Yandex, is hidden due to the lack of space. If you want to change the provider, or change the order of the translators, use the “Replace with” icon, then click on the provider. . The selected translation provider will be interchanged with the new provider. If some of the providers don’t support a chosen language, the number of translation windows may change to two, or the provider may be interchanged to a supported...
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Customize Languages for Translation
We added the ability to save preferred languages for translation from the extended language list for ImTranslator extensions for Chrome, Opera and...
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