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English <-> French Slovoed Compact talking dictionary app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 960 ratings )
Reference Education
Developer: Paragon Technologie GmbH
12.99 USD
Current version: 3.58.292, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 18 Aug 2008
App size: 75.72 Mb

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• New for iOS 9: You can now look up words while reading news, email, Safari sites, messaging or other popular apps! Select any text and send it to the dictionary via the “Share” button. All words available in the dictionary will be highlighted. To activate this feature, please select Slovoed as a sharing extension.
• New multiple clipboard look-up! You can now copy as many words as you need while reading – even the whole text, - switch back to Slovoed app and view all the relevant dictionary entries one-by-one.
• Full text search allows you to look up words more efficiently throughout the whole dictionary content, including headwords, idioms and usage examples.
• List of similar words in case of misspelling.
• Wildcard search if you are unsure of the exact word spelling. Use “?” and “*” symbols to replace the missing letters.
• Search for anagrams, e.g . tab-bat
• Morphology module to translate words in any grammatical form.
• Hyperlinks between articles and directions.

LEARN LANGUAGES WITH SLOVOED

• Audio pronunciations recorded by native speakers to master your spoken language skills. 

• Full linguistic information – with declension and conjugation tables – is included, making Slovoed a must-have for any language scholar for both English and French.
• Table of English irregular verbs.
• Favorite articles to quickly access and revise frequently searched words.
• Flash Card Quiz lets you add new words to flash cards, memorize them and test your knowledge as many times as you wish.
• Handy Converter support to easily and quickly understand foreign measurements, especially when travelling abroad.

ENJOY THE MOST COMFORTABLE WORK

• New! Graphics fully adapted for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
• New! App startup has got 3 times faster!
• Built-in PenReader multilingual handwriting recognition to enter your queries even more comfortable.
• Enhanced customization options allow you to modify animated menus and choose background colors.
• Enlarge or reduce font size for your comfort.
• No Internet connection required: simply download the dictionary once and use it on your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch without any additional expense.
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About Paragon Software

Since its founding, Paragon Software Group has provided premium software applications and unique technologies that allow users of every computing platform to be more productive, whether working at a desk or learning on the go with a tablet or smartphone. Paragon Software’s mobility product portfolio includes more than 350 electronic dictionaries, encyclopedias and phrase books in the widest combination of over 30 languages, with databases provided by the world’s leading publishing houses, such as Duden, Chambers, Cambridge, Oxford, PONS, Van Dale, VOX, and others.

Pros and cons of English <-> French Slovoed Compact talking dictionary app for iPhone and iPad

English <-> French Slovoed Compact talking dictionary app good for

This is an update of my previous review (which seems to not have even been posted yet). I finally heard from Paragon support about the problem of incompatibilty between iOS5 and previous Paragon releases. They informed me very politely that they are aware of the problem, and updates will eventually be released on iTunes to deal with the issue, but they cannot inform me when this will happen. I suppose it took a bit of time to hear from them, given that they may have been inundated with complaints. In any case I appreciate the response and partially retract the rant in my previous review. I say partially because I am still not pleased that I had to buy this new version of the compact Fr-Eng Slovoed dictionary (since I cannot do without such a dictionary for any significant period of time). Having said this, as I sated in the previous review, the new version works very well..........so I upped my rating to 4 stars. I look forward to getting the updates for my old Paragon dictionaries (I have two) as soon as possible.
This is a nicely designed app and I like that it includes verb conjugations for French. It also includes built–in audio. The problem is that its only available in the "Compact" format and the definitions are just a single word or words, with no examples. Id rather pay more for a "Deluxe" version with more words and better definitions.

Some bad moments

No random word. No export for flash cards and favorites. Just another dictionary.
I regret for buying this dictionary because it is missing the explanation of the word especially It doesnt give me the example at all for multiple meaning word. For example: the verb "bouleverser" in french. It doesnt have a lot of word, I cant find the word "prosterner, spiromètre " in french. For me, it is not a dictionary, it is just a box to convert between a word. I regret for having believed of what is written in the AppStore. You pay expensive for doing nothing with this app Buy buy Slovoed,
This is a great app with many helpful features, however, the AUDIO CUT OUT with 2 months of using it!! There appears to be no way to contact the developer for help!
I had the previous Deluxe version on IPhone 3GS very good, this one is useless Ive switched to others