Babylon-Enterprise

Version 9.x.x

Client User Guide

 Contents
7 BABYLON-ENTERPRISE CLIENT ............................................................. 3

7.1 Babylon-Enterprise Client Application ___________________________________ 3

Introduction to the Client .......................................................................................................... 3
Activating Babylon-Enterprise .................................................................................................... 3

7.2 Babylon-Enterprise Window ___________________________________________ 4

Window Overview ..................................................................................................................... 4
Toolbar .................................................................................................................................... 4
Term Box ................................................................................................................................. 5
Results Pane ............................................................................................................................. 5
Sidebar Pane ............................................................................................................................ 6
Additional Interface Elements .................................................................................................... 6

7.3 Results ___________________________________________________________ 6

Results Menu ............................................................................................................................ 6
Information Source Menu .......................................................................................................... 7
Spelling Alternatives and More Results ....................................................................................... 7

7.4 Information Sources ________________________________________________ 8

Information Sources (Glossaries) ............................................................................................... 8
Managing Information Sources .................................................................................................. 8
Installing Information Sources ................................................................................................... 9

7.5 Translation Utility __________________________________________________ 10

Term Translation .................................................................................................................... 10
Full Text Translation................................................................................................................ 10
Web Page Translation ............................................................................................................. 11

7.6 Language Utilities _________________________________________________ 12

Text-to-Speech Tool ................................................................................................................ 12
Cross-Translation .................................................................................................................... 12
Conjugations .......................................................................................................................... 13

7.7 Conversion Utility __________________________________________________ 13

7.8 Customizing the User Interface _______________________________________ 14

Configuration Options .............................................................................................................. 14
Miscellaneous Settings............................................................................................................. 15
Activation Settings .................................................................................................................. 16
Display Settings ...................................................................................................................... 17
Connection Settings ................................................................................................................ 18
Licenses ................................................................................................................................. 19

7.9 Babylon-Enterprise Client Menu _______________________________________ 20

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7 Babylon-Enterprise Client

Note to System Administrator: This chapter of the Administrator Guide is intended for users of
the Babylon-Enterprise client. You may freely copy and distribute it for training and reference.

7.1 Babylon-Enterprise Client Application

Introduction to the Client
The Babylon-Enterprise client application is installed on every user workstation and provides an
interface for the unified display of results from all information sources.
As soon as you click on any text in any Windows application using the defined mouse or keyboard
action, Babylon-Enterprise instantly identifies the clicked term, opens a popup window and displays
concise and relevant information about the selected term.
In addition to enterprise information, Babylon Enterprise supports all Babylon translation dictionaries,
premium content dictionaries, and free glossaries and encyclopedias.

Once installed, the Babylon-Enterprise icon is displayed in the notification area of the
taskbar.
The icon is also displayed in the title bar of Microsoft Office applications, such as Word
and Office, and in browsers, such as Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Click on the icon to open the Babylon-Enterprise window.

Activating Babylon-Enterprise
Whenever you click on a term using the defined mouse or keyboard action, the Babylon-Enterprise
window opens and automatically displays relevant information for the selected term.
You can also open the Babylon-Enterprise window by doing any of the following:
 Click on any screen region without a word or term, such as the Windows desktop, using the
defined mouse action. The default is <Ctrl>+right button.
 Click the Babylon-Enterprise icon on the taskbar or application title bar.
 Press the activation hotkey, if it has been defined. Typically the hotkey is F10.
To set the mouse or key action that will activate Babylon-Enterprise, go to the Configuration menu
and use the Activation tab.

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7.2 Babylon-Enterprise Window
Window Overview
The Babylon-Enterprise window has several function areas:

 Toolbar: The Babylon window frame contains all the controls for working with the Babylon-
Enterprise window, terms and results. It also contains the query term box.
 Sidebar pane: Lists the sources currently returning results, and includes a link to the Manage
Information Sources dialog box. This pane can be opened and closed.
 Results pane: Displays the information results.

Toolbar
The Babylon-Enterprise toolbar buttons perform common Windows operations. It also contains a
button to open the Babylon-Enterprise menu.

Menu: Opens the Babylon-Enterprise client menu.

Minimize: Minimizes the Babylon-Enterprise window.

Fit: Resizes the Babylon-Enterprise window according to the size of its
contents.
Exit: Closes the Babylon-Enterprise application.

Show/Hide sidebar: Toggles the display of the Result Sources

sidebar.

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Term Box
The term box contains the queried term and related functions.

Term box: Field for displaying and entering the query term or value.

Search: Initiates a query on the term displayed in the term box.

Back: Returns to the previous page in the terms history.

Forward: Displays the next page in the terms history.
History: Opens the list of terms previously queried.

Using the Term Box

Whenever you click on a term, the Babylon-Enterprise window opens with the selected term displayed
in the term box.
You can also open the Babylon-Enterprise window, and then type your query in the Term box.
To get results, press Enter or the Search button on the toolbar.

Browsing Terms Previously Queried

Babylon-Enterprise stores the last 50 terms entered in the term box. You can view previous results by
scrolling through the term box’s pull-down list. To open the list, click the blue History arrow on the
right side of the term box.
Alternately, use the Back and Forward buttons on the left side of the term box to scroll through the
history list.

To clear the list of terms searched, click Clear History.

Alternately, go to Menu > Configuration > Miscellaneous tab, and select the Clear History
option.

Results Pane
The Results pane displays all the results of an information query.
Information Source Title Bar: The name of the information source
that is delivering the displayed result. The green down arrow on the tit
le bar opens the Results menu.

Say It: Pronounces the term using the currently configured TTS engine.

Browse: Scroll alphabetically through the entries in the information

source

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 Find Spelling Alternatives: Jumps to the Did you mean? section at
the end of the results listings, where you can see a list of other terms
that you may have intended to look up.
Progress indicator: If a particularly heavy set of results is being
delivered, this progress indicator appears for several moments.

Sidebar Pane
The Sidebar pane displays a list of all information sources currently delivering results, and options for
activating various functions.

Additional Interface Elements

Term: Default tab. Typically, Babylon-Enterprise delivers a translation
or definition of a single term.
Text: Use this tab to translate the paragraph of text in which the
selected term is located.
Connected. A status indicator that shows you are connected to the
Babylon-Enterprise server.
Spelling & Proofreading: Click to launch Babylon Spelling and
Proofreading. Your entire document will be scanned for spelling and
grammatical errors, and suggested corrections will be displayed.

7.3 Results
Results Menu
Text in the results pane can be selected using the mouse as in any Windows application. Simply click
and drag the mouse to select text.
To perform actions on selected text, right-click to open the Results menu.

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 The menu has the following options:
 Copy: Copies the selected text to the clipboard. The text can then be pasted into any other
application. If no text is selected, this option is disabled. If any images are selected along with
the text, the images are also copied.
 Say It: Pronounces the selected text using the configured TTS engine. If no text is selected, this
option is disabled.
 Find: Displays information results for the selected text. If no text is selected, Babylon-Enterprise
gets information for the term currently under the cursor
 Select all: Selects the complete text of a definition.
 Print: Prints the results currently delivered.

Information Source Menu

When you click on the title (name) of the information source in the Results pane, the Information
Source menu opens.
Alternately, click the green arrow in the information source title bar to open the menu.

 About: Displays a description of the selected information source, such as author, description and
version.
 Install: Downloads and installs the information source for offline use. If the information source
cannot be downloaded, typically due to security reasons, a message will appear.
 Disable: Disables the selected information source. A disabled information source will not return
results until it is enabled again from the Manage Information Sources dialog box.
 Set as top result: Moves the selected information source to the top of the list in the Manage
Information Sources dialog box.

Spelling Alternatives and More Results

If no results are delivered for a term, possibly due to a misspelling or a typographical error, you will
receive the result Did you mean? with a list of potentially correct terms. These terms are extracted
from all your active information sources that have been downloaded to your computer.
Even when get results, the Find Spellings Alternatives icon is displayed in the results pane. Clicking on
the icon jumps to the end of the result listings, where you will see a list of a list of terms.
If you have an Internet connection and are connected to the online Babylon information server (BIS),
you will also see the prompt: Didn't get results? Look up in Babylon website.

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7.4 Information Sources
Information Sources (Glossaries)
An information source (also known as a Babylon-Enterprise glossary) is a database table of terms and
information relevant to your work processes and tasks. Information sources are generated from the
systems used in your enterprise, such as CRM and ERP applications.
Babylon-Enterprise also supports the various types of Babylon glossaries, such as monolingual
dictionaries, translation dictionaries and encyclopedias.
The upper section of the sidebar displays a list of the information sources currently delivering results.
Clicking the name of an information source in the sidebar list scrolls the results pane to show the
information being delivered from the selected source.

Managing Information Sources

The Manage Information Sources dialog box presents a list of all sources that have been installed on
the client workstation. Whenever you query a term, Babylon-Enterprise retrieves information from all
the active sources listed in the Manage Information Sources dialog box.
The Manage Information Sources dialog box allows you to add, remove and configure sources for
use.

Active Sources
 When the Active checkbox of an information source is selected, the source is enabled and will be
queried for results.
 When the Active checkbox of an information source is cleared, the source remains in the list of
installed information sources, but will not be queried/return results.

Show Results from Active Sources Only

 When this checkbox is selected, only the Active sources will return results.
 When cleared, additional relevant results from the Babylon information server will also be
delivered if the client is enabled for Internet connectivity and is connected to the online Babylon
information server (BIS).

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 Status of Sources
 On Workstation. The information source has been downloaded to the client workstation, and
will deliver results even when the client is not connected to the server.
 On Server. The information source has not been downloaded to the client workstation, and will
deliver results only when the client is connected to the Babylon-Enterprise server.

Order of Results
Babylon-Enterprise performs queries and displays results according to the listed order of the sources
in the Manage Information Sources dialog box.
Information sources that have been downloaded to the client workstation are always listed before
those that are on the server.
Use the Move Up and Move Down buttons in the toolbar to change the order of the information
sources in the list.

Information Source Details

More Details shows a description of the information source currently highlighted in the list. Details
include author information, number of entries, description, and last update.

Removing an Installed Information Source

The Remove button deletes information sources from the list.
You can also delete an information source by selecting its title and pressing Delete.

Installing Information Sources

The Add Information Sources button lets you install glossaries. It opens a window that presents a
list of the information sources on the Babylon-Enterprise Server that are available to you, based on
your security profile. To access an information source not listed, contact your system administrator.

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  Workstation. The information source will be installed as a downloaded source on the client
workstation. Results from this source will be available even when the client is not connected to
the server.
 Server. The information source will be installed as an online source, and will not be downloaded
to the client workstation. Results from this source will be available only when the client is
connected to the server.
Once installed, information sources are automatically updated by the Babylon-Enterprise Server.

7.5 Translation Utility

Term Translation
Term is the default tab.
Typically, Babylon-Enterprise delivers a translation or definition of a single term.

Full Text Translation

Full Text: Use this tab for translation of complete texts. The translation utility will translate:
 The paragraph in which the Babylon-click occurred.
 Text copied and pasted into the source text field.
 Any textual document on your computer or network, such as Word, PDF or plain text
files. Up to 5000 characters of text can be translated at a time.

This option requires the Babylon-Enterprise client to have Internet access. If needed, contact your
system administrator to enable.
Whenever you Babylon-click a word, its surrounding text is also captured, and automatically loaded
into the Text Translation utility. Click the Text tab to begin the translation process.
You can also open the Text tab at any time, and paste or type text into the source text field.

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 To translate a file on your computer or network, click the folder icon and browse to and select a file.
The text from the file will be loaded into the source text field.
You can modify or correct the source text before it is translated.
Babylon-Enterprise automatically detects the language of the original text, which you can change.
Select the target (translation) language. Babylon-Enterprise maintains and uses the language pair
until you change them again.
Click the Translate button to translate the source text.
The translation appears in the lower text field.

Web Page Translation

Babylon-Enterprise can perform translations of web pages.
To activate the utility, go to the Babylon-Enterprise menu, and select Web Page Translation.

Enter the URL of the page you want to translate. Select the source and target languages, and click
Translate.
This option requires the Babylon-Enterprise client to have Internet access. If needed, contact your
system administrator.

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7.6 Language Utilities
Text-to-Speech Tool
Babylon-Enterprise has a text-to-speech feature that lets you hear the pronunciation of words and
phrases.
This option requires a sound card and speakers or headset on your computer.
By default, Babylon-Enterprise uses the English text-to-speech (TTS) engine installed with the
operating system. To hear pronunciation of words in other languages, you must download and install
additional text-to-speech engines.
Add-on TTS engines for 24 different languages are available from Babylon. Some language TTS
engines include more than one voice.

For download and installation support, contact your system administrator.

To change the voice settings, go to the Configuration menu and use the Miscellaneous tab.

To hear the pronunciation of the currently queried term, click the Say It icon next to the
term in the Results pane.
To hear the pronunciation of words or phrases within definitions displayed in the Results
pane, swipe the text with the mouse, right-click to open the menu, and select Say It.

Cross-Translation
Cross-translation is a special type of result, optimized for users who need help writing in a language
other than their own. Cross-translation is available only when both Babylon dictionaries of a language
pair are installed. For example English-to-German and German-to-English:

Whenever you enter a translation query, Babylon-Enterprise normally delivers a definition in the
defined target language, as indicated by the language pair in the information source title bar.
In the cross-translation result, indicated by a language triplet in the information source title, Babylon-
Enterprise displays translations in the target language as well as reverse translations in the source
language.

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Conjugations
Babylon-Enterprise can display a list of all possible conjugations and inflections (e.g. future, present
progressive form, plural, etc.).
Whenever a term has conjugations/inflections, a down-arrow is displayed next to the part of speech
notation. Clicking the button opens the conjugations/inflections list.
The Conjugations button may appear when the mouse hovers over a term in a cross-translation
display. Clicking the button opens the conjugations list for the selected term.

Click on any of the conjugations/inflections in the list to perform a copy/paste function.

 Copy: Copies the term to the Windows clipboard.
 Paste to [application name]: Pastes the term directly into the application you are currently
using, at the text cursor position. Babylon-Enterprise uses the standard Windows paste
mechanism, so that copied text is formatted according to the target application.

7.7 Conversion Utility

Babylon-Enterprise includes a conversion utility that performs several types of conversions.
 Currency: Converts currencies according to monetary exchange rates that are updated daily.
Currencies can be found by their abbreviation (USD = US Dollar), country names (United States =
Dollar), or name (Dollar, US).
 Time: Determines the equivalent time at different global locations according to time zones (GMT,
PST), or localities (United Kingdom, Los Angeles).

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  Measurements: Calculates equivalents for common units such as angles, area, data storage,
density, energy, force, kitchen measures, length, power, pressure, temperature, time, torque,
velocity, volume and weight.
To activate the Conversions utility, select Convert from the Babylon-Enterprise menu.
The Calculator button in the Conversions title bar opens the Windows Calculator.

7.8 Customizing the User Interface

Configuration Options
Babylon-Enterprise can be customized for various operating environments and user preferences. The
Configuration menu has six tabs for defining these settings:
 Miscellaneous: General settings for the Babylon-Enterprise client
 Activation: Defines the mouse or keyboard action that will activate Babylon-Enterprise and
display query results.
 Display: Defines the display of the Babylon-Enterprise window and results.
 Connection: Defines how you connect to Babylon-Enterprise’s Internet server and get software
updates.
 Licenses: Displays license details for the Babylon-Enterprise products on your PC and allows you
to manipulate the licenses.

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Miscellaneous Settings

 Run Babylon-Enterprise when Windows starts: Default setting. Clearing this option
prevents Babylon-Enterprise from starting automatically whenever the computer is turned on or
restarted.
 Delete queried terms and results (Clear History): Deletes the list of search terms and
results stored in memory.
 Enable Babylon-Enterprise term suggestions: Default setting. Clearing this option prevents
Babylon-Enterprise from displaying the Find Spellings Alternatives icon and from delivering the
result Did you mean? with a list of potentially correct terms.
Text-to-Speech Settings
This set of options allows you to define the text-to-speech (TTS) settings used by Babylon-Enterprise.
 Language: By default the English TTS engine is installed and active.
If enabled by your system administrator, click More Languages to access the Babylon Store,
where you can purchase TTS engines in 24 languages.
 Voice: Lists available TTS voices. Click a voice to activate it.
 Speed: Adjusts the rate of speech for the TTS playback voice.
 Enter text and listen to voice sample: Click Say-It to hear the sample text spoken in the
selected voice.

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 Advanced
OCR Optimization setting. To recognize terms on screen, Babylon-Enterprise runs an optimization
mechanism for “learning” your computer’s system. If the optimization target level is set to Low,
Babylon-Enterprise will not perform the optimization, and may not recognize a selected term. If the
level is set to High, Babylon-Enterprise will perform all possible optimizations, but will take longer and
use CPU resources while “learning” the system.

Activation Settings

 Mouse Activation: Allows you to select the mouse or keyboard action that will activate Babylon-
Enterprise on your workstation.
 Keyboard Activation: Allows you to select the keyboard shortcut that will activate Babylon-
Enterprise on your workstation.
 Spelling and Proofreading: Allows you to select the keyboard shortcut that will activate the
spelling and grammar checker on your workstation.
 Activation Button from with Applications: The checkbox allows you to enable the display of
the Babylon icon (for activating Babylon-Enterprise) on the title bar of Microsoft Office
applications and Internet browsers.

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Display Settings

User Interface Language

This option allows you to select the language in which Babylon-Enterprise displays messages and
dialog boxes. The default language is the one selected and used during the installation process.

Results Display
 Font Name and Font Size: These options allow you to select the font style and size for the text
displayed in the Results pane. The default font style is set according to your system
configuration. The default font size is Medium; you can choose one of 7 preset font size.
Some interface elements, such as the menus and sidebar, are a fixed size and cannot be
configured.
 Number of online dictionaries per request: When results are not restricted to Active Sources
only, this setting limits the number of online information sources that will deliver results.
Default is 5. Can be set from 2 to 10.
 Display pronunciation of terms (where applicable). When selected, the phonetic
transcription of the queried term will be displayed in the results.

Window Settings
These options allow you to modify settings that define how the Babylon-Enterprise window is
displayed.
 Let Babylon-Enterprise decide on window position: When selected, the Babylon-Enterprise
window automatically opens in the best position on screen for displaying results.

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  Let Babylon-Enterprise decide on window size: When selected, the Babylon-Enterprise
window automatically opens in the best size for displaying results.
 Show the Babylon-Enterprise window on top of other application: When selected, the
Babylon-Enterprise window remains visible, even when another program window is active.
 When the mouse is moved away, hide window by: When selected, the Babylon-Enterprise
window will automatically minimize or close when you moves the mouse off the Babylon-
Enterprise window.

Connection Settings

Connection
Use this menu to define proxy settings and update schedules.

Proxy Settings
These options are applicable only when using a proxy server or a firewall to connect to the Internet.
 Use automatic proxy settings: When you first try to connect to the Babylon-Enterprise Server,
Babylon-Enterprise will attempt to read the connection settings from your web browser, so that
you will not need to configure the settings manually.
 Connect through Proxy/Firewall server: Allows you to configure the server address and port
to be used for communicating with Babylon-Enterprise online. Babylon-Enterprise uses the
standard HTTP port (80) to connect to Babylon-Enterprise servers, and there is no need to enable
other ports on your server.
 Remember password for authentication proxy: This option must be selected if your proxy
servers require a username and password when connecting.

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Licenses
Each license is displayed, alongside its status. Only active licenses are usable. Other statuses might
signify an error situation.
Each license typically allows the use of a specific product.
 More Details: Displays information about the license installed on your workstation.
 Remove License: Removes the license, making the information source unusable. Use with
caution. This operation cannot be undone. This option is available only if it has been enabled by
your system administration.
 Enter License: Allows you to enter the registration information and license code, making the
information source active. This option is available only if it has been enabled by your system
administration.

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7.9 Babylon-Enterprise Client Menu
The Babylon-Enterprise menu provides access to customization options as well as frequently used
functions. The menu can be opened by clicking the Babylon-Enterprise icon on the taskbar or the
Menu button on the title bar.

 Open: Opens the Results window.

 Configuration: Opens the Configuration dialog box.
 Information Sources: Opens the Manage Information Sources dialog box.
 Text Translation: Opens the Full Text dialog box.
 Web Page Translation: Opens the Web Page translation dialog box.
 Convert: Opens the Conversions utility.
 Enter License: Opens the Babylon-Enterprise Configuration menu > License tab. The Enter
License option appears in the tab only if it has been enabled by your system administrator.
 Help:
 Babylon-Enterprise Help: Launches the Babylon-Enterprise Help file.
 About Babylon-Enterprise: Displays the current version and build of Babylon-Enterprise.
 Disable/Enable: Disables/enables the Babylon-Enterprise mouse-click button and the keyboard
activation shortcut. When disabled, the Babylon-Enterprise icon in the system tray is dimmed.
 Exit: Closes the Babylon-Enterprise application, and removes the Babylon-Enterprise icon from
the system tray. Babylon-Enterprise can be restarted from the Windows Programs menu.

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