The 3 definitive applications to translate your texts with Windows 8.1
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We present three definitive applications to translate your texts in Windows 8.1, which will allow you to perform translations between different languages, all very quickly and easilyThe applications that we are going to discuss today not only allow simple translations of the entered text.
Translating text in real time focusing on it with the camera of our device, dictating instead of writing, or performing offline translations, are some of the things you can do with the following applications.Let's see what Bing Translator, Language Translator and Sidebar Dictionary can offer us.
Bing Translator
Without a doubt, Bing Translate is the best translation app currently available in the Windows 8 Store. Thanks to it, you can perform translations even offlinethanks to downloadable language packs.
There are more than 40 languages available, and the translation possibilities are very diverse. We can write what we want to translate using the keyboard, like any translator, but we also have the possibility of doing it with your device's camera thus allowing you to translate signals, menus, newspapers or any printed text.
The voice translation is also available, although in this case a network connection is necessary, since for this option the application it connects to Microsoft servers, where the audio is interpreted, converted to text and subsequently translated.
If you need to know how a word is pronounced in one of the available languages, you can hear it with the accent of a native speaker. And to help you work as efficiently as possible, you can dock Bing Translate with another app on your screen, and quickly translate while you perform other tasks.
Size: 13.8 MB Price: Free application Compatibility: Windows 8.1 Bing Translator: View in Windows Store
Language Translator
Language Translator makes use of the Microsoft translation engine to translate your texts, and a simple interface to offer you an application that only Allows you to translate entered text. This makes it an ideal application for those who do not need additions such as voice or camera translation.
You can switch between languages with great ease, as well as listen to your translations in the most popular languages to find out how to pronounce them. The application allows you to dock it to one side of the screen so you can continue translating without losing sight of the other windows.
Size: 0, 1 MB Price: Free application Compatibility: Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Language Translator: View in the Windows Store
Dictionary Sidebar
Dictionary Sidebar is not only a multilingual translation tool, as it also offers definitions in the language you have chosen to translate a term into specific. It has two versions, one paid and the other free, differing in the number of languages available.
Its free version offers support for 10 languages, while its PRO version is capable of translating between 37 different languages. Apart from this, both versions are the same, depending at all times on an Internet connection to function correctly (the English dictionary is available offline).
You can check your latest searches thanks to the integrated history, or add to the favorites sectionthe searches you want to have on hand. And in the same way as the previous applications, Sidebar Dictionary also allows you to listen to the pronunciation in the chosen language.
Size: 2.7 MB Price: Free application (PRO version for €2.49) Compatibility: Windows 8.1 Sidebar Dictionary: see in store Windows Dictionary Sidebar PRO: View in the Windows Store
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