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Product Description

Babylon is the world's leading provider of language solutions, such as online and offline dictionary and translation software in over 75 languages in one simple click and is being used by millions of private users and organizations in more than 200 countries and territories.

Babylon 9 maintains the lead with more languages, full web page and document translation and seamless integration with Microsoft Office speller.

Babylon 9 brings the following new features and enhancements: Babylon Live Translation Community, Spelling and Proofreading, Human Voice, More Languages, More Sources, Full web page and document translation, seamless integration with Microsoft Office speller, easier access to dictionaries and encyclopedias and much more.

Features:

• Simple One-Click Translation in any Application

Simply click on any text in any desktop application to get immediate translation and access to dictionaries & encyclopedias covering a wide range of subjects, categories and themes.

• Available in over 75 Languages

Babylon automatically recognizes the languages you use and need, and delivers results in those languages.

• Live Translation Community NEW!

Babylon 9 enables you to easily participate in Babylon’s large community of native speakers and professional translators worldwide.

• Spelling and Proofreading NEW!

Babylon Speller and Proofreading is at your service to ensure you did not omit or skip anything important and allows you to catch errors (be it typos, grammar, etc.) which you may have made when writing.

• Over 2,000 Dictionary Titles

Babylon delivers results from the world's premier publishing houses (such as: Oxford, Britannica, Merriam Webster, Pons, Larousse, Duden, Langenscheidt and many more) to enhance your translation experience and knowledge.
In addition, Babylon provides results from over 1,600 user generated glossaries and dictionaries.

• Wikipedia @ a click in over 25 languages

Babylon delivers results from Wikipedia in over 25 languages, covering millions of articles and definitions that are constantly updated to cover current events and recent innovations.

• Integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Office Spellers

When spelling suggestions are obtained from MS Office, Babylon provides a short translation for each suggestion indicated in MS Office’s speller menu.

• Web Page and Document translation

Babylon provides translation of full web pages, documents (MS Word, PDF, Text, etc.) and text between 33 languages, all in a single click.

• World time zones, currencies and units conversion

Babylon helps you convert currencies, measurements and world time zones. Just click on any value in any desktop application to get instant conversions. 

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Editor's Review

Now in its 9th incarnation, Babylon’s translation software provides comprehensive, real time translation options and dictionary support for over 30 languages, straight from your desktop. Babylon quickly and accurately translates whole documents and web pages. Babylon can also proofread documents for spelling and coherence. In addition, Babylon can now recognize languages without user input – further streamlining the translation process.

Babylon has kept the “globe” feature from their Babylon 8 program, which enables Babylon to run in the background during normal computer use. With a simple click, one can access translation features and dictionary definitions without having to open up a whole new program.

Babylon provides a wide range of plug-ins and expansion options for their translation software. A computerized reader can prononce words out aloud to help with language comprehension. In order to read languages other than English, however, extra software needs to be installed.

The program is not without its shortcomings, however. Babylon 9 works perfectly fine on web pages where it can access the underlying data of the page – the basic code. If Babylon can’t access this data, then it relies on optical character recognition (OCR). Unfortunately Babylon 9’s OCR leaves much to be desired and more often than not and as a result, the software does not currently work in the Google Chrome web browser.

Babylon: What We Liked

The new proofreading feature can spell check and offer solutions for over 75 languages – regardless of the application in which it is used

Babylon not only translates languages, but can also convert currency, measurements and time zones

Babylon 9: What We Didn't Like

Babylon 9 is not compatible with the Google Chrome web browser

When running in the background, Babylon can slow down computer systems

Babylon Support

Babylon offer free support through their online Support Center. Customers can browse the knowledgebase and FAQ pages, or get specific help through Babylon’s detailed “Contact Support” form. All manuals and guides to Babylon software can also be downloaded from the Support Center.

About Babylon

Babylon sells translation, dictionary and language skills software in over 200 countries. Their popular translation range has been installed on over 90 million desktop computers. Babylon’s software has been awarded the Top Ten Reviews Gold Award in 2009 and is among PC Magazine’s Top Ten downloadable software titles.

Babylon was established in 1997.

Reviewed by Software.com

Babylon does it well

Advantages

so glad i found this program - and for free! i was looking at other programs that translate and they are so expensive and they dont let you try them out. this one is free to try and then reasonably priced to buy

Disavantages

it slowed my computer down a bit but it is an older system

4 stars
By Sammiemax
On 15 Feb 2011

Lifesaver!

Advantages

thank goodness this program understands context! So many translation programs give you the wrong spelling or straight out the wrong word. I haven't had prob with this one, really good.

Disavantages

I wish it would read out more languages than just English. I know I can download more though so its okay

4 stars
By Jbourkie
On 15 Feb 2011

Babylon does it quickly and accurately

Advantages

more accurate than any of the free ones you see around. I have to write reports in French and the proofreading feature really helps find the little errors that are easy to make as a non-native speaker.

Disavantages

It doesnt work in google chrome which is a pain. but in Firefox it has its own toolbar and everything so its not that bad

4 stars
By Kate
On 15 Feb 2011

Babylon one of the top translation products available

Advantages

possibly a better translation tool than other freeware like google translate, but definitely better for voice translation and the only one of its type. has the benefit of a large customer service unit

Disavantages

pretty aggressively promote the free version with a view to upgrading you, as most like to do. not bad value compared to its competitors

4 stars
By SoftwareStaff from Sydney, Australia, United States
On 7 Oct 2010

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