One-click translations and text-to-speech

We live in such a globalized society that it’s inevitable that sometimes you’re going to come across information in a language that you don’t speak – or at least that you need a bit of help with.

TransLite is a small application that aims to overcome difficulties such as these when Spanish and English are the languages in question. When you come across a word that you don’t understand, you copy it and paste into the small TransLite interface. It will then provide you with the various translations of the word and a spoken version. In certain applications, such as TransLite’s own help file, there seems to be a certain amount of auto-detection going on – if you hover over a word, it displays the translations it has for it – but it isn’t clear where or when this will happen!

The whole TransLite interface can be controlled from the taskbar, and it has a good selection of hotkeys to facilitate ease of use. You can also use the application in various modes – Learner, Keyboard and Transliteration – but again, the differences between them are vague. The translations I did manage to squeeze out of the application were pretty standard, but only for translating a word here and there. Between the lack of quality translation and the fact that it is hard to know exactly what TransLite can do, it’s really not an application I would be interested in downloading.

TransLite – what does it do and how does it do it? Absolutely no idea!

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