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10 out of 11 Total Reviews for Babylon
I've been using Babylon for a couple of years now, and I can just say it is an excellent tool for work and academic translation duties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing to dislike! It's an efficient tool and hope it keeps improving in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Excellent translations. The software simple works well with no fussing around Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There's not really any negatives about the software, it does exactly what it's supposed to do Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Babylon is a good toolfor translate and business foreign languages, easy to use and with good customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
don't like the UX must to be adapted to the new competitors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
If I need to translate a word it's easy to switch it from english to another language and helps to make sure I've got it spelled and used correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's possible to pick the wrong translation if you're not very familiar with the language and than your sentence will be difficult to follow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This review is for the standalone version 7.x I use: It's always there when you need it, it's quite pleasingly customisable (app and background colors, font size for readibility, window size and placement on your screen, and even transparency, if you must...), plus you can search and add free specific dictionaries that people have put together online. It has a small footprint and remains as you installed it. It can even be reinstalled over the years with no fuss as all software used to be, amazing! It also shows defitinions from wikipedia (when they exist), which is quite handy, too. If you're a translator that does not care for the new stuff and if you can still find it, purchase version 7.x so you can keep it and forget newer versions with the online integration options, etc. I have not checked its new versions, but it seems to translate up to 13 languages and works with all major OSs. You can use its default shortcut key (F10) to call it up, say within Microsoft Word, though this does not always work if other apps you have conflict with it. As a real plus it can also convert any currency, measurement or time values to your local. It's a handy swiss-army tool for a translator for quick searches. For technical translations you can add to its power with the free area-specific dictionaries and glossaries you can plug-in to it, as I mentioned above. It also has word-to-speech that you use to pronounce a given word, though it is, of course, computer speech. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As an old workhorse it has some bugs... especially if you stay with the older version 9 (as I have) and have not allowed any of the updates that "integrate" you online and so on (and spoil what was good, IMHO) that I really dislike and, for my use as a translator, is an annoying way to use such a tool. I like to have it siting in my tray to be called up when needed and that's all! That said, these are the bugs which were never corrected since way back the app moved on to other more modern versions of itself: It often insists on showing dictionary definitions you never chose and can't disable, such as translations vietnamese and hebrew, you get the picture....! So, in this sense, for some reason it does not stick to the language pair you've chosen upon installation or later. The search field is bugged when it comes to hitting the back key to retype a word, say to change spelling etc., it just does not work. After a while you'll get used to not trying to and just select and retype the entire word again. When searching for a word or expression, it sometimes does not turn up any results even for a rather common term or expression used in the corporate world, for instance.. If one could count on updates for version 7.x that did not spoil or change the app, that would be wonderful, however I do not risk that. Integration with the likes of Linguee and Google Translate in its results panel and with style/grammar apps such as Whitesmoke would also be great. Tools for translators who work 'in the cloud' or with teamwork or machine translation at a distance are probably available in newer versions, though thse are not necessary if you work in your own way or just want a handy tool for such. Some anti-virus and tuneup software (like system mechanic and avg) don´t like babylon for some reason and though they do not interfere with its workings, they do always offer to uninstall it or rate its as a 'poor' (2 star) app, drawing from their user base, but these notions are arguable and don't apply to everyone's use of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
In the past I used this software on windows and it was great. It worked well and it helped me when I was learning a new language. That was many years ago and looks like the company has changed a lot, because my experience today isn't good at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nowadays the software doesn't work on Mac, despite they sell that it works. Their support doesn't reply my messages and worst: their customer service sent their tech support messages that also were ignored :/ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Good quality of translations, doesn't change the context, auto-detection of language, has a free version and most importantly has a big range of languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Price is somewhat high, unresponsive customer service. It gets detected by anti-malware software as a threat also its toolbar is considered adware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It has a very accurate translation as it doesn't change the context as much as some of its counterparts. has a variety of languages to translate from and to. it gets very well integrated with the browser so that I can just translate any word I want with one click. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Despite how amazing the software is, its support is not that great though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
