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| Javi Senior Member Spain Joined 5984 days ago 419 posts - 548 votes  Speaks: Spanish* | Message 9 of 12 14 January 2014 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I use goldendict which also supports pronouncing dictionaries. The already mentioned stardict has similar functionality. You can use them on all kind of documents: if you can select a word, then you can look it up (we are talking about X-window selection here, which means that you don't even have to go through the right-click menu to copy the word to the clipboard). So, double click to select the word and CTRL to show the pop-up window with the definition.
Bear in mind that those programs don't include the dictionaries. You have to get them from other sources in the appropriate format. Edited by Javi on 14 January 2014 at 11:37pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5133 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 10 of 12 15 January 2014 at 12:07am | IP Logged | ||
While stardict is still available, it hasn't been updated in years. Goldendict is (one of) the way(s) forward. It also supports many more formats. I personally like Babylon's dictionaries that they've made available - easily imported into Goldendict. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4085 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 11 of 12 15 January 2014 at 8:40am | IP Logged | ||
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Goldendict seems awesome from the screenshots and the description Javi gave ;)
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| SteveRidout Diglot Groupie Spain readlang.com Joined 4285 days ago 65 posts - 121 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 12 of 12 15 January 2014 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, my site Readlang.com does exactly this, it provides inline translations of words and phrases and works
with any plain text document you like, including a full length novel (you may have to convert it from ePub to plain text first). So if you don't mind using a web app instead of a desktop one please give it a try. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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