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Babylon 7 is one of the leading dictionary and language translation software. Babylon offers you the most intuitive tool for all your translation needs. With Babylon you can quickly translate e-mails, web pages, documents, instant messages, and more. All you have to do is click on the word or text that you want to translate and a small window instantly appears with the desired results from Babylon's extensive database of language dictionaries, glossaries and conversion tools.

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Features

• Spell Checker
  Version 7 offers a spell checker utility for checking and correcting spelling of text in IE text entry areas, such as chatboxes, email, blogs, comment boxes, and forms.
• Web search button
  The Web search button launches a new browser window, defines the searched word with Babylon, and retrieves results for the word from the web using Babylon's search page, powered by Google.
• Expanded "GO" menu
  The GO button's menu now contains in addition to the Text translation and Web Search, a Translate option, a LingoZ.com search link, Converter option, and more search languages.
• Smart Dictionary
  The Smart dictionary kicks in when a direct translation from Babylon's dictionaries is not available. Babylon combines a result for the languages you selected in the Target Languages list.
• Auto-Complete
  Babylon's new Auto-Complete feature predicts the word or phrase the user wishes to translate, and will automatically suggest choses for completing the word. As soon as 2 characters of text are typed into the term box, a list will open with up to 10 suggestions, based on the user's previous translations and offline dictionaries.
• Customizing Babylon's window
  A new Babylon feature allows you to customize Babylons window appearance, shifting the Appearance Settings slides. The Babylon window can now be set to have a different frame and text background colors, it can be set to be transparent, and the font size can be altered by shifting the slides.
• Single Click Activation
  Babylon is a simple and intuitive tool that you operate with a click of your mouse. Just click on any text in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, emails, web pages, instant messages or any other desktop application. A small window appears with the relevant translation, information or conversion that you need. You can also easily "copy/past" to and from Babylon.
• Text translation
  Text translations in 17 languages all in a single click. Text translation has never been easier; no need for additional browsers or "copy/paste" Just click any word in the text you want to translate and Babylon will automatically identify the relevant text passage and translate it. Despite the fact, that no machine translation is 100% accurate or delivers results equal to human translation, this great new feature, based on the most advanced text translation technology, helps you understand texts in languages you are less familiar with.
  Supported languages for translations: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Polish, Ukrainian and Farsi.
• Results from the world's leading publishers
  Get single click results from the world's leading dictionaries and encyclopedias for a small additional fee. Babylon offers its users a wide range of titles from the world's premier publishing houses: Britannica, Oxford, Merriam Webster, Pons, Larousse, Langenscheidt, Taishukan, Michaelis, Van-Dale and many more.
• Wikipedia content
  Babylon's single click intuitive technology now offers its users results from Wikipedia the multilingual web-based encyclopedia in 9 languages with more than 2,000,000 articles.
• Translation in 50 languages
  Babylon's translation and dictionary software offers results from a database of 1,200 sources in 50 languages. The database includes 25 professional dictionaries in 13 languages developed by Babylon's own linguistic team: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Hebrew, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Russian, Korean and Swedish.
• Unit conversions
  Babylon converts currencies, measurements and time, just click on any value in any desktop application to get instant conversions. Babylon automatically identifies the required conversion type, based on unit symbols that appear next to the numbers.
• Writing tools for English
  In addition to text translation Babylon also offers its users tools for finding just the word that they need and ensures correct conjugation. As some words can be translated in more than one way, Babylon enables users to see each possible translation with it's equivalent translation in the user's native language, ensuring that you use the most appropriate word available. Babylon also shows you all possible conjugations to guarantee that you use the correct word in the correct form.
• Spelling alternatives
  An automatic spelling feature available in Babylon 6 provides solutions for common typos and wording problems.

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