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Programs I use:

• Lingoes – this allows you to highlight words on screen for instant translation (written: English / spoken: Chinese).  Below are the elements you need to make it work.
  • Essential dictionaries:
    • Vicon Chinese-English – This is essential for PinYin tones
    • Vicon English Chinese
    • CEDICT – Another dictionary necessary for PinYin help
    • 21 Century English-Chinese Bidirectional Dictionary – Large amount of terms to double check your translations
  • Install all dictionaries under Index and Text Capture
  • For Index I have, in order:
    • Vicon
    • CEDict
    • 21 Century
  • For Capture I have, in order:
    • Vicon
    • 21 Century
    • CEDict
    • Instant Translation
  • The best Audio Translator I found (female) was here:
    • Chinese Text to Audio – Download, install and it will appear on your list of speech options

After this is all installed, you should be able to right click on your bird (in lower corner of your screen) and check off: Translate selected text.  Now, whenever you highlight selected text it will read it to you.  Chinese text will be read aloud (in Chinese) and a little pop up (the Instant Translation) will appear over your highlighted words and translate it into English for you as you listen to the Chinese!

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