dict.cc is a free, multilingual
online dictionary. For offline use the dictionaries can be downloaded as
text files and used in various programs on
Windows,
iOS,
Android
Android may refer to:
Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...
and
Palm OS. Dict.cc GmbH have their main office in the
Austrian capital city of
Vienna.
History
The website was put on the internet in the year 2002 by Austrian Paul Hemetsberger. His vision is to provide hundreds of languages within a few years.
At the beginning of February 2005 Paul Hemetsberger allowed vocabulary lists to be downloaded under the conditions of the free
GNU General Public License (GPL). Later in the year he changed to a proprietary license, which provides less freedom to the users. Nonetheless, he released all of those user-generated posts which were created under the former GPL-Licensed project into the lists.
Vocabulary structure
Like some other online dictionaries, dict.cc allows users to suggest new entries. These new entries are not moderated (unlike in LEO, another online multilingual dictionary), but rather reviewed by the users through a multi-stage validation system.
Languages
The biggest vocabulary sets currently consist of the German-English dictionary, from which the website developed. Since November 2009 additional language structures can be found, with translations into German and English. Nowadays, there are 50 further dictionaries; in the order of verified vocabulary extent (descending):
Swedish
Swedish or ' may refer to:
Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
,
Icelandic,
Russian,
Italian,
French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
,
Romanian
Romanian may refer to:
*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
**Romanian cuisine, traditional ...
,
Portuguese,
Hungarian,
Latin,
Dutch,
Slovakian,
Spanish,
Croatian,
Bulgarian
Bulgarian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
* A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria
* Bul ...
,
Finnish,
Norwegian,
Czech,
Danish
Danish may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark
People
* A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark
* Culture of Denmark
* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ance ...
,
Turkish
Turkish may refer to:
*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
,
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
,
Serbian
Serbian may refer to:
* someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe
* someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people
* Serbian language
* Serbian names
See also
*
*
* Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
,
Greek,
Esperanto
Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...
,
Bosnian and
Albanian
Albanian may refer to:
*Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular:
**Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans
**Albanian language
**Albanian culture
**Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...
.
The level of user interest in adding additional language is used to develop a wish list, where interested users can register with their E-mail address as future translators or employees.
Data
The German-English dictionary, with over 1,180,600 translations (November 2018), is larger than the competing site LEO, and as of late 2018 was growing daily by about 300 entries. The other 50 dictionaries contain a total of more than 1.5 million (November 2018) verified translations. In addition, there are over 1 million inflected forms.
Furthermore, there is a forum with over 33,000 contributing users and over 770,000 posts within the website. As of March 2015 it ran on 11 servers in parallel, in order to process the 150 million monthly pageviews.
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Speech output
For every entry in the German and English language dictionaries, an automatic speech output can be generated through
Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal languag ...
. Nevertheless, users have the possibility to add their own speech recording for every entry. As of November 2017 there were over 1 million verified spoken recordings from
native speakers.
Vocabulary trainer
In order to improve language knowledge, a vocabulary trainer is also provided, which is complemented with entries from the dictionary. Moreover, it is possible for every user to make their vocabulary lists publicly accessible, whereby a large choice of vocabulary questions is available.
External links
Official Website
References
Online dictionaries
Companies based in Vienna