It even does offline single-word translation between Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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But we know which approaches had the biggest commercial success: search engines, speech recognition, machine translation, word sense disambiguation, and other technologies.

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Just double tap any word to get the dictionary definition or translation and with one more tap, learn more about the word through Wikipedia.

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The Commission's argument is that because it has dedicated departments - one for simultaneous interpretation and one for translation of the written word - it can guarantee uniform quality across the board.

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"Mail Honyaku Concier" (honyaku means "translation" in Nihongo, while that last word is a play on "concierge") is a free app that lets users translate text into different languages.

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