Dict and Info Applications Software for Windows

Express Dictate Dictation Recorder
$38.5 - NCH Swift Sound Software

Express Dictate is voice recorder software that works like a dictaphone and a dock station for a portable recorder. You dictate using your computer or a portable dictaphone or notetaker and send your recordings to your typist or assistant by email, FTP or over your computer network. Express Dictate can dramatically improve the turn around time for work and, most importantly, lets you work from wherever you want.

Features
~ Digital audio recording with superb signal processing quality (32 bit DSPs are used).
~ Record to wav, mp3 or dct formats (only dct supports encryption, sender information and notes).
~ Automatic non destructive record editing with multiple record modes including record-insert, record-overwrite and record-at-end.
~ Voice activated recording so long silences in dictation are not recorded.
~ Assign priority to individual dictations.
~ Ability to prompt for patient or file data before recording starts and supports the VIS Laser Barcode Scanner.
~ Send recordings directly to a typist immediately by email, over a computer network or via FTP or save to your hard drive.
~ Supports recording encryption if you are required to secure patient or client data for transmission over the internet (HIPAA compliant).
~ Ability to 'dock' normal analog and digital handheld dictation recorders so even if you don't record with Express Dictate you can still use it to transmit recordings to your typist via email.
~ Attach additional files to the recordings or type in notes for your typist or for the record.
~ Ability to recover sent dictations.
~ View "Sent Work Progress" and backup sent dictations to hard drive or CD.
~ Audio compression to reduce file and transmission size. Codecs supported include PCM, wav, mp3, gsm and many more.
~ Can be controlled by system-wide hot keys (so you can record while working in other screens).

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Pocket Dictate Dictation Recorder
$38.6 - NCH Swift Sound Software

Pocket Dictate is a Pocket PC voice recorder. You dictate directly on your Pocket PC using the buttons on the unit. When done, tap send and the dictation will be compressed, encrypted and sent to your typist by email automatically.

The software is designed to have all the features you need as easy to use as possible and reliable for day-to-day operation. If you install Pocket Dictate you will quickly find it will replace your old dictaphone and, by using the internet to send dictations, will improve the turnaround on typing. It is suitable for most Pocket PCs, Windows Mobile and Palm Treos.

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Simple dictionary applications
$0 - All free dictionaries project

Applications allow users to use free bilingual dictionaries offline. You can download compatible free dictionaries at: (all dictionaries have to be UTF-8 files with one translation per line and words separated by tabulators). Hundreds of free bilingual dictionaries can be created and downloaded from the Universal dictionary system at: . Universal dictionary currently interconnects 25 languages: Basque, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Japanese Romaji, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Online dictionaries are at:

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Express Dictate for Mac
$38.5 - NCH Swift Sound Software

Express Dictate is a voice recorder for Mac that works like a dictaphone and a dock station for a portable recorder. You dictate using your computer or a portable dictaphone or notetaker and send your recordings to your typist or assistant by email, the internet or over your computer network. Express Dictate can dramatically improve the turn around time for work and, most importantly, lets you work from wherever you want. As long as you have access to a computer with email, you can dictate from where you are - even overseas.

Express Dictate uses state of the art digital audio processing and compression technology to record and transmit the audio. It also includes features such as automatic editing and voice activated recording. Express Dictate will also keep track of the progress of work and the expected completion time.

You can also use your existing portable dictaphone or notetaker while you are away from your computer. The Express Dictate Transfer from Portable Dictaphone/Notetaker (Dock) feature lets you transfer the dictation quickly and easily and send it to your typist or assistant via the internet or your computer network.

Express Dictate is designed to have the features that you need made as simple as possible and is reliable for day to day operation.

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Hunter Dictionary II
$0 - www.graphichunter.com

Hunter Dictionary II is a free multifunction online dictionary for translating English word to Chinese, English or Japanese. It is also an specialized dictionary for thesaurus and computing terms.
Hunter Dictionary II contains no dictionary database itself. Instead, it is a specialized Internet Browser, user can use it to browse the online Dictionary Service (e.g. Yahoo Chinese Dictionary, MSN Encarta, Thesarus.com etc).
In the Internet world, there are many online dictionaries services available. Hunter Dictionary II will not force user to use its suggested online service provider. Instead, user can define their own favourite online service provider by specifying its query string in Hunter Dictionary II.

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FastDictionary
$0 - Verlane Technology

The FastDictionary 2007 is a very special electronic dictionary. FastDictionary lets the user to search words while using other applications - without having to leave the current window. This feature makes FastDictionary a great tool for users to surf the Internet or just reading texts in a word processor. FastDictionary has a database with more than 165,000 words and their translations. To search for a word one has just to highlight the word in a text and send it to the Windows Clipboard (using the Ctrl+C keys or the Copy option at the mouse right button). In one second FastDictionary will translate the word. FastDictionary is able to find words in plural, past, etc. The currently available dictionaries are: English/Portuguese and Portuguese/English (more than 55,000 words); English/English (more than 100,000 words); Spanish/Spanish (more than 13,000 words).

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