Windows 10: New Version Of Translator Available

New Version of Translator Available to download and update from Windows Store
For anyone who uses it or is interested

:)

 

New version of Ovi Suite Available

huge file size..

 

New version of Ovi Suite Available

A new version of Ovi Suite 2 beta has been released today. It's available from betalabs.nokia.com or through the update check in the current beta.



So far it seems a lot faster and more stable.

 

Thanks.. a quick trial suggests it's pretty good.. note the Spanish misses the plural though.





Offline packs available (said to be not as accurate as online)
The voices (other than US for English even with English UK dialect chosen!) - are convincing.

And I like the pinyin with the Chinese translation whose rendering of the tenses is so fundamentally different, whereas they are so much more recognisable in those European languages.
Unfortunately it doesn't offer pinyin-> English

However, copy and paste isn't available- I had to use Abbyy's screenshot reader, which won't cope with the Chinese (probably would if I configured it).

 

This is a tad disconcerting:




= I ate a bowl.

Perhaps it was anticipating (e.g.)
'I ate a bowl of noodles' ?
Or maybe it's trying to explain the disappearance of the bowl?

 

New update ready in store to download and install

 

Hi there

Not very good for Icelandic -- though I'm sure demand for that is probably just higher than that for a Chocolate Teapot in a transport restaurant.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Thanks, didn't even know about this app. Not much of a languages man, I can barely muster my native tongue but it sounds a cool app to have so just downloaded it. Maybe it'll help with my children's homework when they start learning languages!

 

Accuracy is much better where languages have more closely related roots. E.g. English/Spanish.

But English / Chinese is, well, rather unpredictable e.g.

One way to check (sort of) is to
a. Translate sentence x from English to target.
b. Translate the result back to English.
c. Compare that to the original x.
If you've got 'manglish' not English, you probably can't trust the translated version.


*** Just discovered a feature! (You probably knew anyway...)
- you can click the camera icon and then just hold a document up to the camera, and it will translate the document.