PROMT Offline: a translator, dictionary and phrasebook that does not need the Internet

Who will benefit from this service? Travelers, everyone who, on duty, communicates with foreign partners, and finally, schoolchildren and students studying foreign languages. Fast and accurate translation that does not require internet access - PROMT seems to have everything you need. Let's go over the main functions.

Interpreter

Everything is elementary here: choose a translation option (from Russian to English or vice versa), enter the text manually or paste it from the clipboard and get the result instantly.

If a fragment of the text that needs translation contains some specific terms, it is worth choosing the appropriate thematic category. For example, Business, Cooking, Science, or Travel.

PROMT Offline: selection of a thematic category

The main requirement for such services is translation quality. In everyday situations, inaccuracies do not pose any threat: it will still be possible to convey the meaning of the phrase in one way or another. When it comes to work correspondence, any errors can have, if not fatal, then rather unpleasant consequences: you have to spend time trying to find out what each participant in the conversation had in mind.

An interesting fact about the quality of PROMT translation: at a seminar on automatic translation, which is held under the auspices of the International Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the company has received the best expert marks for translation from English into Russian for four years in a row.

Phrasebook and Dictionary

Trying to conduct a conversation in a language you don't speak is a fun and hopeless endeavor. In cases where in order to solve a problem it is necessary to communicate with a native speaker, the PROMT phrasebook will help out.

Useful phrases for the traveler are divided into 12 categories. Each of them has a set of blanks that can be useful in frequent situations - from going to a restaurant to checking into a hotel and currency exchange.

Sometimes knowledge of a foreign language is not a panacea at all. For example, if you were learning French, try reading a text written in German and vice versa. An interesting experience, but it is unlikely that it will somehow help in communicating with a native speaker. In this case, PROMT Offline has the opportunity to listen to the phrase you are interested in in order to memorize the correct pronunciation.

Text recognising

Finally, the main feature of the new version of the application: now PROMT Offline can recognize text in photos and pictures. You take a snapshot of the fragment that needs translation, and the smart application parses where the text is and translates it.

PROMT Offline: translation of recognized text

Internet access to use this function is not required neither at the stage of text recognition, nor at the stage of direct translation. The result is not perfect, but quite decent. In any case, the meaning can be grasped.

The cost of the application includes an English-Russian package: a translator, dictionary, phrasebook and the ability to recognize English and Russian text on images. Packages with French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese can be purchased separately, the cost of each is 229 rubles. However, practice shows that the overwhelming majority of users only need English.

And I will immediately answer the question of whether it is worth paying when there are free analogues. Costs. Analogs are analogs, but the quality of translation from PROMT Offline is higher. A common problem for offline translators: the result is worse than what their online versions can do, and instead of a coherent text, the output is a ridiculous set of words. With PROMT you are insured against such unpleasant situations.

PROMT Offline always works in offline mode, you do not need to specially disable access to the Network for this. For example, you are waiting for a letter to be translated. There is no need to turn on or off the data transfer, even with Internet access, the translator will not waste traffic in vain. In this way, you can save a lot on payment for communication services while traveling.

After all, freedom of communication is not something to save on. If you need a high-quality translation in any conditions - even without the Internet, even without a mobile connection at all - PROMT Offline will not let you down.