[vi-android] Dictionary apps

From: Quentin Christensen <Quentin.Christensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:57:45 +1100
Hi everyone,

Someone asked me about accessible dictionary apps recently so I had a bit of a 
look and made some notes on the top few results from the play store.  I thought 
I'd pass them on here in case anyone else is interested in a basic English 
dictionary (A lot of them will let you download files for other languages or 
translation dictionaries though to be honest I wasn't looking for that at the 
time and didn't make any notes on it).

My personal favourites were either "Offline dictionary" by NGHS.fr or 
"Wordweb".  I made some brief notes on each of them below though.

Dictionary.com (by Dictionary.com llc) - the read aloud buttons and several 
others are unlabelled but most text reads.  Definitions read disjointedly as 
just about every word is a link able to be followed to find that word's 
definition (I couldn't get page granularity to work here).

Oxford dictionary (by Mobile Systems) - I couldn't get this to read at all with 
Talkback.

Dictionary - Merriam Webster - (by Merriam Webster) again reads disjointedly 
and more unlabelled buttons. I went to try again two days later and the trial 
period had expired.

Offline dictionary - (by NGHS.fr) $1.99 or free with ads.  Works well and reads 
full definitions straight through which is easier to listen to though to look 
up individual words contained in the definition of the first word you would 
need to do a separate search.

English Dictionary - offline (by Livio) - most buttons unlabelled and 
definitions read very disjointedly.

Dictionary (by Farlex) - most buttons are unlabelled and it can take a bit of 
swiping to get around, definitions read better than some of the others once you 
get to them, though still have to swipe a couple of times through each.

Dictionary offline (by Ting Studio) - couldn't download dictionary (Might have 
been our network as I was trying to do it at work and the English dictionary 
was 144MB - I did try the Italian dictionary which was much smaller but that 
wouldn't download either).

WordWeb by Wordweb - Reads ok once you set reading granularity to page on the 
definition however every second word is followed by "Link".  Buttons are 
labelled though which is nice.

Regards

Quentin.


Quentin Christensen
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