Anuvadak derives it functionality from Google translation service. I have tried to incorporate the complete Google translator features in this app.
Anuvadak is different from the other apps as it offers a completely different user experience.
It has some advanced features which others apps (on winmo) are missing.
Features:
- Attractive UI.
- Text to speech translation enabled (Not for all languages but for all which Google supports) . The voice is same as used on Google’s translation portal.
- Romanization of the all the supported languages. (Beta)
- Copy translation.
- Send translation by SMS.
- Google like instant translation. This feature is still in development but I am ready to release with beta version. The instant translation feature works awesome with wifi but does reasonably ok with 3g also.
You can click on any past translated texts also and then re-translate them using the sub menus.
So all in all… Whatever Google offers on their website, Anuvadak does it. (Except for auto-detect language. This feature was intentionally excluded. Will be included in the next minor release)
The new 1.1 version packs in some real good features and above all: a solution to display ~all languages. No more boxes for Arabic, Persian, Hebrew , Hindi, Chinese or Japanese.
Attached are some screen shots for your reference:
This is a video showing the new features of Anuvadak 1.1:
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Update Description:
v1.1.1:
- Added Bing text to speech translation.
- Bing supports Japanese and Korean translations which google doesn't.
- Added Icon chooser option for people who want to choose different icon for Anuvadak. Power to the user. Users can also put their own artwork as icon. More power to the user.
Please read the following directions:
QVGA and HVGA users:
- Take the icon png you want and resize it in two sizes 90 x 90 and 32 x 32.
- Take the 90 x 90 icon and put in under the "use" folder where ever Anuvadak is installed e.g. /Program Files/Anuvadak/use.
- Take the 32 x 32 icon and put it under "small" folder where ever Anuvadak is installed. e.g. /Program Files/Anuvadak/Small.
- Thats it!! next time you open Anuvadak > go to choose icon and your icon will be listed there.. :).
VGA and WVGA users:
- Take the icon png you want and resize it in two sizes 90 x 90 and 64 x 64.
- Take the 90 x 90 icon and put in under the "use" folder where ever Anuvadak is installed e.g. /Program Files/Anuvadak/use.
- Take the 64 x 64 icon and put it under "small" folder where ever Anuvadak is installed. e.g. /Program Files/Anuvadak/big.
- Thats it!! next time you open Anuvadak > go to choose icon and your icon will be listed there..
v1.1:
- Added QVGA, WQVGA and HVGA support.
- Improved Instant translation but still in alpha.
- Added paste support with a dedicated paste button. No more long press to select paste option.
- Added dictionary items with translation:
o Nouns.
o Pronouns.
o Adjectives.
o Interjection.
o Conjunction.
o Verb.
o Adverb.
o Abbreviation.
- Added check for update option.
- Added user-selectable option to show number of items in history -This is major memory improvement. Devices with low memory choose less than 5 items.
- Added support for saving a language pair as favorite or save it as default.
- Added support to show all indic and asian languages. Shown in the video.
The last enhancement was difficult to add but it happened.
There is a trick to it.
Anuvadak now uses Arial Unicode MS font to show all languages. Unfortunately, I cannot pack the font with the application as it would be illegal. Also, the font file is around 28 MB. But we have a solution.
The font is packed with all the versions of Microsoft office 2007 onwards. It is located in Windows > Fonts directory by name Arial Unicode MS. Download the font from the windows (pc) directory and copy it your windows phone > Windows > Fonts directory. Install the app and bingo!! all languages show up now.
For people who don't have access to Arial Font, I am attaching a another unicode font (free). Download that font and repeat the copying instructions as above and it should show up nicely. One thing to remember, when using the alternate font remember to change settings from the application menu to choose Bitstream cyberbit.
The drawback of using this (Bitstream cyberbit) font is that it doesn’t show every character in every language. Some characters from Arabic, persian and chinese are missing. Hindi is completely missing.
