ABBYY Lingvo dictionaries in e-books

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    We are all used to electronic dictionaries in home computers, laptops, PDAs and phones. Somewhere they appeared several decades ago, somewhere several years. Do not you think that something is missing from this list? Agree, it’s somehow strange, while reading an e-book, to climb over a paper dictionary and look for a translation of an unfamiliar word - mobility disappears, and with it the whole point of an electronic reader. But many people today are eager to receive information in any languages: they are eager to get acquainted with other cultures, are interested in technical innovations and originals of literary masterpieces from different countries.

    Having decided that something needs to be done with this, ABBYY and PocketBook have joined forces to produce e-books with built-in ABBYY Lingvo dictionaries. At the first stage of this cooperation, PocketBook 360 ABBYY Lingvo was released for the Russian and Ukrainian markets. The generation of PocketBook devices, which included the 360 ​​model, worked on Linux, and we adapted our linguistic technologies to this platform. For the first half of 2010, about 4 thousand “readers” with our dictionaries were sold. This experience for us and PocketBook seemed successful, so we decided not to stop there :)

    Since December 2010, the entire new PocketBook lineup has been equipped with the ABBYY Lingvo x3 Worldwide. The updated line of “readers” will consist of the classic PocketBook Pro 602 and Pro 902 models, premium models PocketBook Pro 603 and Pro 903 and PocketBook IQ with a color TFT screen. The IQ model (and, as expected, all subsequent ones) will be based on Android, and now we are porting our linguistic technologies to this platform.

    Very large changes were made to the composition of dictionaries. If earlier there were dictionaries of English, German and Ukrainian directions in the “readers”, now, since PocketBook plans to actively enter the international market, these will be dictionaries for 24 languages, and there will be 44 dictionaries in total (mainly, dictionaries for translation from English into European languages, including, of course, Russian, and in addition, Ukrainian-Russian and Danish-French dictionaries). If this is not enough for the user (dictionaries contain from 20 to 250 thousand words each - as a rule, this is enough to read almost any books), he will be able to buy an extended package consisting of 40 premium dictionaries for 9 languages ​​that will begin to be sold in the near future at www.PocketBook-int.com and www.BookLand.net.

    For Lingvo, the pre-installation in PocketBook is the first major international project and the first experience of integration into an e-book - and we hope that it will be successful. In the future, we plan to continue cooperation with PocketBook - expand the functionality of dictionaries, add services, and generally do everything that the market asks for and the device allows!

    Dmitry Gritsan

    with the support of the department of products for mobile platforms

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