Update Log
New features - Chinese Sample Sentence Text-to-Speech (TTS). Only available on the English version currently to target the Chinese learning scenario.
Improvements - Improve Bing Dictionary Desktop with a new optical character recognition (OCR) component which is significantly more accurate to better assist in hover translation scenarios.
- Update the Sentence Query Engine and Sentence Ranking System to offer higher quality and more relevant sample sentences.
- Add a large amount of new sample sentence pairs and videos into the Bing Dictionary database.
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| New features Improvements - Improved machine translation, providing a more accurate and faster service;
- Added “1-line definition” into the “Did-you-Mean” feature, helping users find words they want more easily;
- Updated the inflecting words search experience; users can easily switch between inflecting words and original words;
- Personal English Tutor: Released the video of new mouth model -- Cissy; one hundred thousand videos will be published.
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| New features - Bing Cloud Widget: Bing Cloud Dictionary can easily help web masters create bilingual websites.
Improvements - Updated and more accurate web definitions, will help users understand the latest and "hottest" words.
- The "One Line Definition" feature has been updated, meaning that users can now see better one line definitions of words in the autocomplete list when performing a word search.
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| New features - Sentence in Pinyin: Provide interactive, word-aligned Pinyin for bilingual sample sentences to assist Chinese as Foreign Language (CFL) learners. This feature is only exposed on the English version.
- Collocation: Expose words that usually appear near a given a query by analyzing authentic web-scale English text. The collocations are statistically ranked and broken down by part-of-speech.
- Sentence Paging: Expose more sample sentences to users via a paging control; now up to 90 sentences for each query.
Improvements - Added 400,000+ bilingual sample sentence pairs and videos into the Bing dictionary database.
- Updated English Text-to-speech (TTS), regenerated all English TTS based on
the IPA format for better pronunciation.
- Ability to display sample sentences in the mobile version of a WAP web browser.
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| New features Improvements - New Sentences: Further updating of sample sentences so that users can get more help with learning new words.
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| New features - English Site: The Bing Dictionary English site is now released. This site is for the English-Learning-Chinese user. Users can switch to the English site by clicking the "English" link on the homepage.
- Auto-Expanding Translation Search Box: When a user inputs text that takes up more than one line, the search box will expand automatically.
- Personal English Tutor (Beta): Users will be able to watch a video highlighting sample sentences, which will help them to pronounce each word in the sentence more easily
Improvements - New Sentences: More than 70,000+ new sentences have been added into the Bing Dictionary database, meaning that users will see more new sample sentences
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| New features - New Landing Page: Bing Dictionary provides a new landing page, including "Sentence of the Day", "Look and Learn", "Recently Added" and other new functions.
- Phonetic Search: When looking for words where you know the pronunciation but don't know the spelling, Bing Dictionary can help you find the word you're looking for.
- Machine translation : Machine translation can help to translate sentences.
Improvements - All browsers will support the "Easy Word Compare", "Interactive Tabs" and other functions.
- Bing Dictionary now rovides better Comprehensive Suggestions. It also provides Phonetic Suggestions and Spelling Suggestions when there are no results from a search.
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| New features - Word for Word Highlighting in Bilingual Sentences: When you check the 'word alignment' box on the sentence explorer you can see the cross-language word highlighted and as you mouse over you can see other aligned terms.
- Comprehensive Suggestions: Leverage
several new techniques including spelling check, autocomplete, and 'did-you-mean'.
- Add as search provider: After having been added as search provider, you can query in your browser's search box.
- Supports IE 8 Accelerator
Improvements - Improvements on sentences by filtering out bad data.
- Improved term and sentence audio (TTS) by removing noise artifacts.
- Introduced new stemming technique in dictionary query; more robust sentence search by ignoring punctuation in a user's query.
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