At all times, you can simply start typing a new word and press Enter to look it up. But the EPD is no worse than other popular applications (when was the last time you installed a new version ofĪn application and found that it’s faster than the previous one?) and certainly better than most other dictionaries on the market. This is of course slower than I would like - there is no reason why it couldn’t start in a split second, other than the fact that it would have taken moreĭeveloper man-hours (and more money) to complete. On my laptop with a dual-core CPU and a 5400 rpm hard drive, the EPD starts in 2 to 4 seconds. The responsiveness of the EPD is good on modern computers. Without the CD in your CD-ROM drive, so you don’t have to look for the CD when you
#Dictionaries with sound software#
Is absolutely necessary in every software dictionary. The setup program for the EPD offers an “install to hard drive” feature, which
The CD-ROM does not contain the information panels or the study section from the paper version. the Sound Search and pronunciation exercises. sound recordings, are typical of a software dictionary. Phonetic transcriptions of English words, including inflected forms and proper names, coveringįor more information about the transcriptions, see myĪpart from the transcriptions, the CD-ROM version offers a few additional features. Like the book version, the software contains 220,000 (you can also buy a cheaper version without the CD-ROM). The paper version of the 17th edition of the The Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary CD-ROM software is included with
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