ABBYY Lingvo 12 Electronic Dictionaries

English-Russian Edition 50 dictionaries for 2 languages $ 79.99 Buy Box Buy Digital Multilingual Edition 128 dictionaries for 10 languages $ 149.99   Buy Digital Concurrent licenses and volume discounts are available. For details, call ABBYY sales office at 510-226-6717 or send your request to sales@abbyyusa.com.

ABBYY Lingvo 12 offers the easiest way to translate words from Russian to other supported languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Latin and the other way around. It provides comprehensive collection of dictionaries, advanced search capabilities and easy-to-use interface and can be installed on desktop PC, laptop, PDA and smartphone.

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Key Features:

• Collins English Dictionary
• Authoritative and up-to-date dictionaries
• Detailed information on each word with word-use examples
• Pop-up translation by pointing the cursor
• Powerful full-text search capabilities
• Installation on PDAs and smartphones
• Lingvo Tutor tool for learning languages
• Pronounced words

System Requirements

Collins English Dictionary
(© HarperCollins Publishers, first published in 2006)
Both Lingvo 12 dictionaries now include the Collins English Dictionary, the 8th edition (120,000 entries), an authoritative explanatory dictionary of the English language published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2006. It includes definitions of English words with etymological references and will be very useful for translators and advanced users of English.

Authoritative and Up-to-date Dictionaries
Lingvo 12 English-Russian Dictionary contains more than 2.3 million entries in 50 dictionaries while Lingvo 12 Multilingual Dictionary offers over 7.5 million entries in 128 dictionaries, including general, professional, specialized, regional, explanatory dictionaries as well as thesauri, phrasebooks, dictionaries of idioms and abbreviations. Most of these dictionaries are electronic versions of the authoritative (licensed by famous publishers, such is Russkij Yazyk, Collins, etc.) and up-to-date printed dictionaries, 80% of which are published in 2003 — 2006.

In addition, the Multilingual Edition supports 10 translation languages for users who look for easy translation from Russian into multiple languages or the other way around, including Russian-English, English-Russian, Russian-German, German-Russian, Russian-French, French-Russian, Russian-Italian, Italian-Russian, Russian-Spanish, Spanish-Russian, Russian-Ukrainian, Ukrainian-Russian, Ukrainian-English, English-Ukrainian, Russian-Turkish, Turkish-Russian, Russian-Latin, Latin-Russian and Chinese-Russian.

Detailed Information on Each Word
All the dictionary entries contain actual and detailed information on each word and word combination with various translations, abundant word-use examples from real sources (books, newspapers and other publications), grammar references, synonyms, antonyms, variant spellings, phonetic transcriptions and pronunciations. Russian words are provided with indication of stress.

Pop-up Translation by Pointing the Cursor
With Lingvo 12, you can get instant translations of unfamiliar words when browsing the Web, reading e-mails or texts on-screen. Simply point the cursor to a word and its translation will pop up.

If need detailed information about the word, including all its meanings, translations and usage examples, press Alt, Ctrl or Shift key on your keyboard and while holding it down click on the word you are interested in. Alternatively, you can select the word and press Ctrl+Ins+Ins or Ctrl+C+C.

Powerful Full-text Search Capabilities
In addition to comprehensive vocabulary, Lingvo 12 dictionaries offer the full-text search capabilities allowing users to search for words and word combinations in all texts of its dictionaries including headwords, translations, examples of use, and comments.

Installation on PDA and Smartphone
Lingvo 12 can be installed on a desktop PC, notebook, handheld PC, smartphone and network server allowing users to read, write, and translate foreign texts as well as study languages at any time and place.

The mobile versions for pocket computers and smartphones are bundled with the desktop version of Lingvo 12.

Lingvo Tutor™ utility for learning languages
If you are learning a foreign language or wish to upgrade your language skills, Lingvo Tutor will provide a good learning aid. You can set up your study schedule, create your own word study dictionary or use one of the basic dictionaries included in the program.

The Lingvo Tutor tool can also be installed on a pocket computer helping users to learn words on every possible occasion at any place.

Pronounced Words
ABBYY Lingvo 12 provides word pronunciations for three languages including:

• 15 000 English words (both English-Russian and Multilingual Editions)
• 10 000 German words (Multilingual Edition only)
• 5 000 French words (Multilingual Edition only)

All the words are spoken by professional native speakers. In contrast to artificially generated sound, the natural speech can really help you to improve your pronunciation.

System Requirements:

Desktop/Laptop PC

• Microsoft^® Windows^® 2000/XP/Vista
• Intel^® Pentium^®/Celeron^®/Xeon™, AMD K6/Athlon™/Duron™ or compatible processor, 400 MHz or higher
• 64 MB RAM
• 500 MB HDD for English-Russian version; 1 GB HDD for Multilingual version
• CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM
• Sound card, headphones or speakers
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (Lingvo 12 includes Microsoft Explorer)

Note: Cyrillic support required to work with the Russian interface; (2) To work with Chinese dictionaries, Chinese fonts need to be installed first

Server PC

• Microsoft^® Windows^® 2000/Server 2000/XP/Server 2003/Server 2003 x64
• 20 MB RAM
• All the users installing or running Lingvo 12 on their workstations must be authorized to access the license server
• The number of connections supported by the server on which the administrative installation point will be located must not be less than the total number of Lingvo 12 users (for concurrent licenses only). Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, for example, supports only eleven connections at a time - this means that Lingvo cannot be installed on more than eleven workstations.

Pocket PC

• Microsoft^® Windows Mobile 5.0/ 2003 SE/ 2003/Pocket PC 2002
• 14 MB of main memory to store and run the program; 130-270 MB (main memory or memory card) to store dictionaries; 5-46 MB (main memory or memory card) for morphology support; 140 MB for audio files
• Microsoft^® ActiveSync 4.1 (for Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0) or Microsoft ActiveSync 3.7 (for earlier versions of the operating system)

Note: Lingvo Tutor can be installed on Microsoft^® Windows Mobile^® 5.0/2003 SE/2003 only

Palm Handheld

• Palm OS^® 4.0 - 5.4
• Motorola Dragonball EZ/VZ/i.MXL, Texas Instruments OMAP, Sony or Intel XScale processor
• 1 MB to of main memory to store program files; 130-250 MB (main memory or memory card) to store dictionaries
• Palm^® Desktop software installed on your desktop PC

Note: ABBYY Lingvo 12 installed on Palm OS devices doesn’t support Chinese, Turkish and Latin dictionaries.

Smartphone (Windows Mobile)

• Microsoft^® Windows Mobile^® 5.0/2003 SE/2003
• 4 MB of main memory to store program files; 6 MB of main memory for program operation; 130-270 MB (main memory or memory card) to store dictionaries; 5-46 MB for memory for morphology support
• Microsoft ActiveSync 3.7 or later to connect your smartphone to a desktop PC

Smartphone (Symbian OS)

• Symbian OS v7/8/9.1 (Series 60 platform); v7 (UIQ 2.1)
• 200 KB of main memory to store program files; 1 MB of main memory for program operation; 130-250 MB of main or external memory to store dictionary files; 140 MB for audio files

Note: ABBYY Lingvo 12 installed on Symbian OS devices doesn’t support Chinese and Latin dictionaries