A list of news and changes is available at the end of this page.

The main focus when developing the new version 19 was on improving the translation quality and the dictionaries. More than 29,500 new entries (265,000 new words) and 33,500 new comments for controlling the translation have been added to the English/German and German/English dictionaries. In addition, several new comments have been introduced which allow it to get a very good translation with the correct sentence order even for complicated sentences. As well, the program is now able to select the correct translation for ambiguous terms even better by evaluating the upper/lower case of the word.

The Letter construction kit has been strongly enhanced. It contains over 720 new sentences in many new categories, which enables you to create perfect letters in a foreign language on even more topics than before.

Several program functions have been strongly improved as well. For example, the Universal translator is now able to translate the clipboard contents by pressing a button. The Web translator now supports SSL encrypted Internet pages and IDN domains with umlauts and special characters.

The Office integration now contains some new features. The program is now able to read Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and Publisher documents aloud using the speech output. You may as well access the enhanced dictionary lookup in Office.

The program is fully compatible to Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. Of course it also works with Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP without any limitations. The new support for ClearType is also a benefit by enhancing the readability if the program windows on flat screens.

List of news and improvements:

• The English<=>German dictionaries now contain over 3,058,000 (three million) vocables and phrases and the corresponding translations. In comparison to the previous release, over 29,500 new entries and over 33,500 new comments (overall over 265,000 new words) have been added. The dictionaries now contain more than 1,169,000 comments.
• Numerous improvements to the translation algorithm and the place-holder phrases improve the translation results.
• The sentence order comments have been strongly improved and enhanced.
• The Letter construction kit now contains over 720 new sentences from many areas.
• The Web translator has been improved. It supports IDN domains (with umlauts), SSL encrypted websites, etc. and is much more tolerant to nonstandard HTML code.
• The speech output is now also available directly in the Web translator.
• You may press F9 in the Universal translator to translate the contents of the clipboard.
• Universal translator and Web translator will automatically select the best method to communicate with the clipboard supported by the operating system.
• The enhanced dictionary lookup is now also available directly in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher.
• The speech output is available directly in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher as well.
• The size of the Foreign language tutor can now be changed. The last position and the size will be stored automatically when closing the program.
• The bookmark feature in the "Edit dictionary entries" window has been enhanced and improved.
• The program supports the ClearType feature of the Windows XP and Vista operating systems. This highly improves the readability of the fonts especially on TFT displays and allows you to work in a much more comfortable way.
• Up to two bookmarks can be defined in the source text window to be able to jump quickly to a certain position in the text. The bookmarks will be saved when interrupting the translation (saving for resumption).
• An automatically generated log is available at Help, Info. You may send this log to us if you encounter problems. It is no longer necessary to collect the relevant information by hand.
• Some minor corrections and changes.

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