Bilingual Dictionaries

Kurzweil 1000 comes with the American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition. You can also get the Concise Oxford Dictionary for it, if you'd like. With this version, we include 12 pairs of bilingual dictionaries - useful if you want to get a short definition in English for a Spanish document, for example, or the French word for an English one.

The following dictionaries are available, assuming that you choose to install them.

Larousse Concise French to English
LSI French to English Concise
LSI French to English Large
Larousse Concise English to French
LSI English to French Concise
LSI English to French Large
AHD Spanish to English Small
LSI Spanish to English Concise
LSI Spanish to English Large
AHD English to Spanish Small
LSI English to Spanish Concise
LSI English to Spanish Large
LSI Dutch to English Large
LSI English to Dutch Large
LSI German to English Large
LSI English to German Large
LSI Italian to English Large
LSI English to Italian Large

You choose a dictionary by going into the Dictionary Lookup Dialog, and using the list labeled "Dictionary Source". You'll find that the Part of Speech control is not available for any of the bilingual dictionaries.

When you look up a word, you'll get a brief definition or group of definitions in the other language. Words will be automatically spoken by a voice that is capable of handling the language.

The definitions are quite terse, and this is not a particularly good way to get a translation of a block of text written in a language that you don't know at all. It is, however, a handy way to look up a few terms in a language that you are familiar with, when you are reading text in a language with which you are not quite so familiar.