PROMT Personal English-Russian

PROMT Personal English-Russian is a comprehensive and accessible tool that comes packed with a multitude of functions to provide a complete method of translating different texts between English and Russian. The program features translation from various sources, such as documents, webpages, PDFs or instant messages, as well as a simplified interpreter, ICQ installer, and plug-in manager.

The provided interface is straightforward and accessible divided into a translator and settings, additional dictionaries, application launcher and user guide. Each item is opened in an individual window.

For a quick interpretation, all you have to do is copy and paste the desired text into the specific panel, depending on what language you want to translate and hit the corresponding button. From the same window, you can select the category the text is related to, like culinary, general lexicon, music, sport, travel or cinema.

If you have a document written in Russian and you want to understand its contents, the app lets you add it, select the translation direction and it is opened in the simplified editor. Keep in mind that each offered method uses an external program to run it. For webpages is used Internet Explorer and for instant messages IQC.

From the settings you can edit the existing profiles, by enabling and adding various dictionaries, managing preprocessors and interpretation rules. Plus, you can download other vocabularies from the developer's site. The text can be read by a built-in voice, which can be customized with different sounds, pitch, speed and volume for both English and Russian.

Another useful feature is the translation lite with which you can open DOC, RTF, TXT and HTML files from the computer and translate them between English and Russian. You have the possibility to enter unknown words to a watch list, as well as edit the content's font, style, size and color, find and replace words with other. Documents formatted using this tool are saved as normal or translated records.

The bottom line is that PROMT Personal English-Russian is a reliable and intuitive utility that comes to offer an easy method when you want to quickly translate documents, websites, PDFs and instant messages between English and Russian, read and listen how it's pronounced and manage dictionaries.