We believe we know the answer. Any dictionary is a composition of 2 components - a
word database and the software that helps You to search, view, edit and store the
database. This essentially means that perfect dictionary is a perfect word database
plus perfect software.
Perfect dictionary engine
We started with Palm OS dictionary engine SlovoEd (SlovoEd means "Word
Eater" in Russian) in April 2000. We developed unique compression
technology that makes us the most compact product on the market in comparison with
any others. We pioneered several unique features like new layout for small screens
and resident modules, which later were implemented by our competitors to remain
competitive. We are staying innovative in terms of new features and keep adding new
ones to new versions. Retail sales of SlovoEd dictionaries are growing some 25% a
month, demonstrating the strength of the product. Nowadays we are shipping
dictionaries, based on the same engine for several platforms including Windows CE,
Symbian, Palm OS and Casio Pocket Viewer. This allows us to release new dictionaries
for all platforms simultaneously.
Perfect word databases
If You take a moment to search the web for the sources of, say German-English or
Czech-German dictionary You might be surprised how fast the "easy
result" will fall into Your hands. That's why there are companies on the
market offering a range of products from "Swahili-Serbian
Dictionary" to "Spanish-English Dictionary" along with
another hundred of language pairs.
Offering free language pair databases, found on the web, for the price of commercial
or even free of charge is not our altitude. We believe that databases are just as
important as the engine. To illustrate this, try to remember how word
"surf" would be translated back in 1985 when there was no
"web-surfing". Most of "public",
"free" and GPL dictionaries are absolutely outdated. Most of them
were composed even before World War 2. Now imagine someone, using such a publicly
available dictionary to translate a word combination "web surfing"
- results would be disappointing.
Understanding that perfect engine worth almost nothing with a low quality database,
we're taking serious effort to ensure, that databases used in our handheld
dictionaries are up to date, are of high quality and are supported by their
owners/publishers. All of our handheld dictionaries contain clear references to the
database owners, all dictionary databases are legally licensed and we have all
necessary papers to confirm that. Up to 70% of the dictionary price is the license
fee that we're paying to our partners.
SlovoEd to satisfy customers
SlovoEd engine allows You to fully evaluate product, using it as a full powered
version for a certain period of time. Moreover, for a number of language pairs we
have dictionary databases, which differ in size, price, detalisation, amount of
words, transcription support and other aspects, so that You can choose one that fits
Your handheld, Your budget and Your expectations.
