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Talking Thai <> English Dictionary+Phrasebook
Talking Thai <> English Dictionary+Phrasebook
for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch
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for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Features Questions:
Phrasebook vs. Dictionary Questions:
Requirements/Compatibility Questions:
Purchase Questions:
Reinstall, Upgrade, Transfer Questions:
Keyboard Questions:
Reference Questions:
Companion Material Questions:
Features Questions and Answers:
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Wow! How do I use this?
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This Talking Thai <> English Dictionary+Phrasebook
is an app that runs on mobile devices using the Apple iOS operating system, including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
This dictionary is also available for
To use the dictionary, you simply run it and start typing
letters of the word or phrase you are looking for. As you enter each
letter, the dictionary jumps closer and closer to your
desired word or phrase, and typically after only a few letters, you
have found your word or phrase.
You can also find phrases arranged
into more than 300
useful categories.
Each entry contains English, Thai written using
Thai Script, and Thai written using a convenient
English-like Thai Sound
pronunciation guide.
So you can read and search for Thai words even
if you don't read Thai Script.
We have lots more information about the dictionary on our
overview page. Also see the exact
requirements for
your device.
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Can I look up both English and Thai words?
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Yes. Most dictionaries and phrasebooks let you look up English words,
and some also let you look up Thai words using
Thai script. But Paiboon's revolutionary three-way design
bridges the gap for English speakers by introducing a third method
where you can look up Thai words that you hear by their
sound, using an easy-to-read, English-like Thai Sound
pronunciation guide:
Search-by-Sound™ has been a hallmark of all Paiboon dictionaries
since 2002.
For more information on Search-by-Sound™ and why it's so useful for
Thai, see this section.
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Will I see actual Thai characters?
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Will I see actual Thai script?
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Will I see the Thai alphabet?
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Yes you will. Our dictionary comes with highly readable
Thai fonts and allows you to set the font size as big as
you want. You don't need any extra software to display Thai Script
or even to search for Thai words. We provide a handy
on-screen keyboard to help
you type Thai words by their sound, or you can use your
favorite third-party keyboard.
If you don't read Thai script, our dictionary
is still just as useful! Every time a Thai word
appears, it's written in Thai Script, but also in an
easy-to-use, English-like Thai Sound pronunciation
guide, so you can read and sound out Thai words without
needing to read Thai script. And thanks to our
indispensable
Search-by-Sound™
feature, you can even find Thai words by their
sound!.
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Do I have to read Thai script to use this app?
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No. Our dictionary is equally useful to casual travelers who
don't read Thai and serious students who do, because every
time a Thai word appears, it is written both in
Thai Script and in an easy-to-use, English-like Thai Sound
pronunciation guide. So you can read and sound out Thai
words without needing to read Thai script. And thanks to
our indispensable
Search-by-Sound™
feature, you can even find Thai words by their sound!
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Do I have to be on the Internet to use the app?
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No. When you purchase our app and download it from the app store, you
have everything you need right on your device. All the dictionary
entries and sounds are built-in, so you can look up words and play all
the high-quality
sound recordings
of each Thai word without being connected to
the internet or incurring any data charges. Works on a plane or on
the train.
Only the dictation feature requires internet access, and only
on some platforms: see
dictation requirements.
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Does the dictionary talk?
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Yes. You can tap on any Thai word, phrase, or
complete sentence in the dictionary to hear a high-quality sound
recording of a native Thai speaker.
Tap the
buttons to hear some sample sounds:
Say goodbye to robot voices and limited sound sets: our comprehensive
sounds set a new standard in the industry.
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Can I speak to the dictionary?
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Yes.
When online, you
or your Thai friend
can speak English
or Thai
words right into the app to search the
dictionary
(see dictation requirements).
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Can I translate whole sentences or paragraphs at once?
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Can I translate web pages automatically?
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No. At this time, our app contains
195,000+
words, phrases, and complete sentences, but it does not attempt to
translate complete sentences (that are not already in the
dictionary), paragraphs or whole webpages.
Currently, for translating sentences or paragraphs from Thai to
English or English to Thai, the only tool available is Google
Translate, but as many people have noticed, it's really not so good.
The output is so full of errors that it is often impossible to
understand, or easy to misunderstand. Translation of complete
sentences is a very difficult problem because the computer has to
understand the text in order to choose the right translation
(e.g. "glass" pane vs. drinking "glass") and in all but a few
isolated subject areas, that is beyond the ability of modern software.
Other language pairs, such as English-Spanish Google Translate,
work much better than English-Thai because in those more
closely related languages, multiple meanings tend to be shared
across the two languages more often. So Google Translate's
guesses are correct a much greater percentage of the time.
Having said that, we are thinking of implementing a feature where you
can paste a bunch of text, or perhaps specify a website URL, and our
app will find and show all the words in your text that are in
our dictionary, with an easy way to see the definitions. Contact us if this
interests you.
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Can I have a look at the product's manual?
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You can find a detailed explanation of all app features on our
overview page.
Our product manual, which includes both detailed instructions on using
every app feature and a comprehensive
guide to speaking and understanding Thai, is built into
the program. It's even interactive, with icons you can tap to hear
sounds.
You can buy the product with full confidence knowing we offer a 100%
money-back guarantee.
If you have a specific feature question, you can
contact us and ask.
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Phrasebook vs. Dictionary Questions and Answers:
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How can I decide whether to buy phrasebook or the dictionary?
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How are the phrasebook and dictionary different?
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Are all features of the phrasebook also in the dictionary?
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Can I upgrade from phrasebook to dictionary?
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Can I add phrasebook features to my dictionary?
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All these questions are answered on our
Thai phrasebook and dictionary app product comparison page.
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Requirements/Compatibility Questions and Answers:
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What kind of device or computer do I need?
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What kind of operating system (e.g. iOS, Android, Windows) do I need?
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What platforms does this run on?
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This Talking Thai <> English Dictionary+Phrasebook is an app that runs on
mobile devices using the Apple iOS operating system, including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
For all the important details on requirements, see the
requirements page.
This dictionary is also available for
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How much space do I need on my device or computer?
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Because our app includes
almost 30 hours
of high-quality sound recordings, we require about
575 megabytes (575MB, or 0.575GB) of free space on your device or computer.
For more details, see our
requirements page.
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Does this work on iOS?
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Will this run on my iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch?
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Yes. See our overview page
for purchase info and also see
requirements for
your device/computer.
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Does this work on Android?
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Will this run on my Android phone or tablet?
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Yes. See our overview page
for purchase info and also see
requirements for
your device/computer.
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Does this work on Windows?
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Will this run on my Windows laptop or desktop PC?
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Yes. See our overview page
for purchase info and also see
requirements for
your device/computer.
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Will this run on my Mac?
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We do not plan to develop a Mac version of this dictionary app
at this time.
However, we have many customers who use our Windows product on a Mac via
CrossOver Mac,
Parallels and
VMWare Fusion.
See our
overview
page for more info on the Windows product.
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Will the dictionary run on Windows Phone?
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Will the dictionary run on PocketPC / Windows CE / Windows Mobile?
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No. This Talking Thai <> English Dictionary+Phrasebook is an app that runs on mobile devices using the Apple iOS operating system, including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
This dictionary is also available for
We have heard there might be demand for a PocketPC/Windows
Mobile/Windows Phone port. If you are interested, send us mail at windowsphone@word-in-the-hand.com.
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Why is the app/keyboard/tabbar cut off at the bottom on iPad with iOS 16+?
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If you have an iPad Pro (and possibly certain iPad Air models) running
iOS 16 or higher, you may see the tabbar and Paiboon keyboard cut off at
the bottom, like so:
This is a new problem that is caused by a bug that Apple introduced in
iOS 16. It shows in iPad models specifically (seemingly only iPad Pro
and a few iPad Air models).
We are hoping that Apple will fix the problem in an upcoming iOS
release, but as of iOS 17, they still didn't fix it.
Everything at the bottom gets cut off, but here are workarounds
that you can use right now:
- For the tabbar items (Search Categories Help Settings Favorites),
unfortunately they are cut off but still (barely) clickable.
- There is a temporary workaround you can do for the Thai keyboard.
In ThaiDict go to Settings > Keyboards > Thai Script and choose the
System (Apple) keyboard. For some reason, Apple's system keyboard is
not affected by this bug.
- Same for the English keyboard. You can go to ThaiDict Settings >
Keyboard and choose the System (Apple) English keyboard.
- For Thai Sound, you still need to use the Paiboon keyboard, though
fortunately it is unlikely that you will need to use any of the keys
on the bottom row since you don't need to type tone marks when
searching. On your Paiboon Thai Sound keyboard, you can still access
the second-from-the-bottom row and higher rows.
In the long term, if Apple does not fix this bug, the we will need to
work around this problem ourselves by coming up with a new version of
ThaiDict.
ThaiDict is still very much in active development and has been
so continually since 2010. Since the last iOS release in 2017, we
have been working on a massive new upgrade with thousands of new words
and phrases (including thousands suggested by customers and many more
we have compiled) and we are very much looking forward to getting this
new material to you along with any needed workaround to the cut-off
problem.
We would like to set your expectations properly about timing. At this
time, we cannot make a solid ETA for the next iOS release, because we
are limited by our small development team and the ever-shrinking
market for serious Thai learning products that has essentially made
our entire ThaiDict effort (on all platforms, iOS, Android, and
Windows) into a charity from the mid-2010s to the present. Because
the iOS and Android world do not allow us to charge for upgrades, we
have had to take various day jobs simply to sustain our living and of
course we are not in a position to hire extra help.
It may surprise you to learn that creating and publishing a new iOS
app release, even one where almost no app features change compared to
the previous release, is a massive effort. This is because of an
enormous load of pointless make-work that Apple forces all app
developers to do each time they wish to update (we have to modify our
code to fit Apple's latest tools and requirements by making numerous
bureaucratic changes that do not affect the usefulness of the app for
customers, and in the process Apple forces us to abandon support for
users with older iOS devices as well, which we do not want to do).
But this product is our passion and, even though it makes no business
sense to do so, we want to keep updating it in order to continue to
help you to learn and communicate in Thai.
We hope you understand and continue to support our effort by your good
reviews, mentions, and word of mouth. We have appreciated your
business for more than 13 years.
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Why do I see a popup when I paste into the app?
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Why do I see a popup about pasting each time I launch the app?
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Some users may see the following Apple popup each time you paste in the app,
or in some cases each time you launch the app:
This is because of a "feature" Apple added in iOS 14 (and changed
again in iOS 16) that warns you when an app wants to read copy/paste
clipboard content that originated in other apps.
Fortunately, Apple's iOS includes a way to turn off this popup for your
chosen apps:
- Launch Apple's Settings app
- Touch the name of the app for which you want to make the setting (e.g. ThaiDict)
- Touch "Paste from Other Apps"
- Change the setting from "ask" to "allow"
If you are seeing this popup every time you launch ThaiDict, it is
almost certainly because you have enabled the ThaiDict feature
found inside ThaiDict at:
Settings > Auto Paste and Search
This useful feature causes ThaiDict to automatically search for whatever word
is in the clipboard every time you launch the app, which can save you many
taps if you often copy words in other apps that you want to look up.
"Auto Paste and Search" is off by default. If you previously enabled
that feature, but no longer want to use it, you can always turn it off
and that should also stop the popups on app launch.
Some users also experience a problem that they cannot paste at all.
For that issue, see the next answer...
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Why does no text appear when I try to paste text into the app?
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Why does no text appear when I try to type on the keyboard?
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A few users with iOS 16 and above are experiencing an issue where they
cannot paste text copied from other apps, or type text in certain
languages, into ThaiDict: the operation appears to work, but no text
actually appears in the box at the top of the Search screen.
Both of these issues (and a related issue with dictation, as explained
in the next answer below) are caused by a bug that Apple introduced
in iOS 16 that causes multi-language apps like ours to lose track
of the current language.
Fortunately, there is a simple workaround.
Consider this screen shot showing the Apple System Thai keyboard:
Prior to iOS 16, you could switch between Thai and English either
using the three large tabs above the keyboard, or by using the
globe-shaped key at the bottom of the keyboard. And then you could
paste, type letters, or dictate a word.
But, starting with iOS 16, if you are experencing issues pasting or
typing, then you must use the globe-shaped key to switch
keyboards instead. Then you will be able to type, paste, and dictate
as normal.
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Can I speak words in Thai to search the dictionary?
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Can I speak words in English to search the dictionary?
Why does the keyboard change when I try to speak/dictate words?
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Yes! You definitely can search for words by speaking them in both
Thai and English.
To do this, you need to choose the System Keyboard for the language(s)
you want (Thai or English) and then use the microphone-shaped (dictation)
key on the keyboard to dictate a word.
We explain all the steps you need to set up and use this feature
here in the ThaiDict app Help:
Help > Using the App > Search > Searching with Dictation
Starting around iOS 16, Apple made a change to their dictation/keyboard
support that requires you to change one step of the above process.
Consider this screen shot showing the Apple System Thai keyboard:
Prior to iOS 16, you could switch between Thai and English either
using the three large tabs above the keyboard, or by using the
globe-shaped key at the bottom of the keyboard. And then you could
tap the microphone-shaped key to dictate a word.
But, starting with iOS 16, while you still can switch keyboards using
the tab above the keyboard, if your goal is to do dictation, you
must use the globe-shaped key to switch keyboards instead. If
you try to switch keyboards using the tab and then tap the
microphone-shaped key, then either the keyboard will immediately
switch to the other language and fail to bring up the dictation
screen, or it will let you dictate but then discard whatever word you
dictated.
This is due to an Apple bug starting in iOS 16 that is beyond our
control. Essentially the tab and the keyboard become "out of sync"
and so using the globe-shaped key prevents that problem.
Fortunately, if you use the globe-shaped key to switch keyboards, the
problem doesn't happen, and you have full access to dictation in both Thai
and English.
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Purchase Questions and Answers:
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How can I purchase the dictionary for my iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch?
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Simply tap/click here to purchase and install:
You can do it right on your device, or you can do it on your PC/Mac:
- Tapping the badge on your device takes you to our app in Apple's
App Store. Your device will need to be connected to the internet
during purchase and download. Depending on your location and carrier,
you might want or need to be connected via WiFi rather than 3G/4G
mobile networks, because the download is 575 megabytes (575MB, or 0.575GB)
in size. For example, you could install from your home, an internet
cafe, a restaurant, a coffee shop, or any other location that offers
Wi-Fi.
- Clicking the badge on your PC/Mac takes you to our app in Apple's
iTunes program. After iTunes downloads the app to your PC/Mac, the
next time you plug in your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, iTunes will
transfer the app to your device.
If you want to tell a friend about our app or install the app when you
are not reading this FAQ, simply search the Apple iTunes App Store for
the word "Paiboon." You will find the app as:
Talking Thai <> English Dictionary+Phrasebook
from Paiboon Publishing and Word in the Hand.
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Can I try the dictionary before I buy?
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For all of our products on all platforms, we offer a 100%
money-back guarantee,
so you can buy the product with full confidence.
See our support page
to find out how the guarantee works on each platform.
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What is the return policy?
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Is there a money-back guarantee?
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For all of our products on all platforms, we offer a 100%
money-back guarantee,
so you can buy the product with full confidence.
See our support page
to find out how the guarantee works on each platform.
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Reinstall, Upgrade, Transfer Questions and Answers:
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Do I get free lifetime upgrades to later versions on the same platform?
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If I bought on iOS, do I get free upgrades to later iOS versions?
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If I bought on Android, do I get free upgrades to later Android versions?
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If I bought on Windows, do I get free upgrades to later Windows versions?
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Yes! We are constantly improving the dictionary by adding new
features and adding more vocabulary. By purchasing the dictionary
now, you will be entitled to download free upgrades on the same
platform (e.g. Apple iOS, Google Android, Microsoft Windows) as new
features and vocabulary become available.
Each platform is sold separately, so
upgrades do not apply across platforms.
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Is one purchase good for multiple devices/computers?
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If you purchased for Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch):
Yes! The standard policy of Apple's iTunes App Store is that once you
purchase our app, you can install it on more than one iOS device as
long as each device uses the same iTunes account.
Apple refuses to tell us the maximum number of devices you can install
on, but we have heard from outside experiments that the maximum seems
to be 5 devices.
Your purchase of the iOS product does not entitle you to use the app
on other platforms (e.g. Android, Windows). The other platforms are
sold separately. See this FAQ item.
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How do I install the app on additional devices/computers?
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If you purchased for Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch):
The standard policy of Apple's iTunes App Store is that once you
purchase our app, you can install it on more than one iOS device as
long as each device uses the same Apple iTunes account.
Apple refuses to tell us the maximum number of devices you can install
on, but we have heard from outside experiments that the maximum seems
to be 5 devices.
Simply go to the App Store app on each additional device and follow
the same steps you took to find the app during your initial purchase.
You will find that the button that used to say "BUY" now says
"INSTALL." Touch that button and the free app installation will
begin.
Your purchase of the iOS product does not entitle you to use the app
on other platforms (e.g. Android, Windows). The other platforms are
sold separately. See this FAQ item.
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Do I get free lifetime upgrades to other platforms?
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Can I get a discount for upgrades to other platforms?
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Can I trade in my older version on another platform for this platform?
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No. When your purchase our product on one platform (e.g. Apple iOS,
Google Android, Microsoft Windows), you get free lifetime upgrades on
that platform but you must purchase again if you change platforms.
Currently there is no way to transfer a purchase or get a discount for
a new purchase across platforms.
One reason why we cannot do transfers or discounts is that Apple,
Google, and PayPal are mortal enemies and they don't give us any way
to transfer the licensing permission. Apple and Google also do not
give us any way to offer discounts for individual customer
purchases.
But there is another, more fundamental reason why we do not offer free
license transfers or discounts: each time we have moved to a new
platform (from Palm OS to Windows desktop to Apple iOS to Google
Android) we had to completely re-write the app from scratch, because
each platform uses a software development system that is completely
incompatible with the previous platform. In some cases, we even had
to rewrite our app in a completely different computer language!
Unfortunately, platform designers like Microsoft and Apple and Google
do this on purpose in a futile and counter-productive attempt at
locking developers onto their platform, and this trend is almost
certain to continue as new platforms emerge.
The net effect of this reality is that each time we move to a new
platform, it incurs massive development costs (at least 3 and often 6
months of full-time software engineer labor).
The simple financial reality is that we need to recover those
development costs so that we can continue to provide free upgrades for
everyone on every platform, both existing and new! Because we have a
large base of customers who also upgrade their devices to each new
platform, we cannot fund continued development of all our supported
platforms using only the purchases of new users on the new platforms.
The numbers simply do not add up, and we would not be able to continue
to support you if we did not charge across platforms.
You may have noticed that some app vendors do offer free upgrades
across platforms (by making most app features exclusively available
through in-app purchases, on which Apple and Google place fewer
restrictions). In those cases, the vendor has factored the large
additional cost of new platform development into initial purchase
price of their app, making the app more expensive for you if you do
not happen to jump to every new platform. We do not want to incur
cost for all customers when only some customers switch between
platforms. Also, nobody can predict when and how often new platforms
will become popular, so we feel it is both more fair and more safe to
price each platform separately.
We understand that from your point of view, you can only use one
platform/device at a time, so it seems like you should only pay once.
We hope you will understand that from our point of view, we need to pay
for our programming time so we can continue to develop the app and add
new features and new vocabulary for you and all our other users on all
platforms.
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How often do you update the app?
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What is added in updates?
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Although we have no fixed schedule for updates, we typically update
apps on all our platforms about once a year to add a large batch of
new entries (for our Thai dictionary product, we started at 42,000
entries in 2009, increased to 100,000 in 2010, increased to 150,000
entries in 2012, increased to 195,000 in 2016, and we are continuing
to add more year after year) and then we occasionally release
additional updates to add new features or address issues with new
devices.
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Do you offer an academic discount?
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Not at this time.
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Can I get a discount for bulk purchases in our business/school/institution?
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Our dictionary is a dream come true for large institutions who
employ large numbers of expat workers. With a single easy centralized
purchase, you could have the world's leading Thai-English
dictionary for English speakers on every employee's device,
smoothing their transition to Thailand and saving you
both work and training costs. If your business, school, or
institution is interested in purchase of a large number of units (say,
3000-5000 units over the multi-year course of our business
relationship), please contact us and we can
discuss creating a customized version of our software that is easy to
deploy across your entire institution.
For those who wish to make smaller bulk purchases, we would love to be
able to offer bulk purchase discounts, unfortunately at this time,
both Google and Apple control pricing and does not give us the
opportunity to offer different prices for different quantities.
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What changed in each version of the software?
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To see a list of all software versions so you can find out what
changed, visit this page.
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Keyboard Questions and Answers:
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What keyboards can I use in the app?
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Can I use the system keyboards?
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Can I use third-party keyboards?
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Do you support Swype?
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Yes! Our app works with all other system and third-party keyboards
just like any other app. Plus we offer a custom-designed Paiboon
Keyboard that gives you many advantages when using our app. For more
detail, see the product overview.
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Why do I have problems searching for the Thai letters ฃ ฅ ๅ ข ช ซ ค ด ต า?
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How can I type the Thai letters ฃ ฅ ๅ?
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You have fallen victim to one of the craziest idiosyncracies of the Thai
language: there are several obsolete letters
ฃ ฅ ๅ that are not used for any word in the
dictionary at all, but that look nearly identical to the common
letters ข ช ซ ค ด ต า. The difference is so small you need a
magnifying glass to see it:
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ฃ ฅ ๅ |
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ข ช ซ ค ด ต า |
These decoy letters appear on most Thai keyboards and they
are always fooling people into typing them, causing people not
to find the words they are looking for.
The letters ฃ ฅ are so obsolete that arguably, there are no longer any
words in the Thai language that use these letters, including proper
names and place names (which have all been changed to use the more
modern letters), though occasionally you will see street signs for
"old fashioned" festivals using the old letters in order to give an
"old" feeling as in English "ye olde shoppee" in fake old-fashioned
shopping areas (and like "ye olde shopee," the usage of the archaic
Thai letters is often wrong historically!).
Our app includes a custom-made Paiboon Thai Script keyboard frees you
from this nightmare by leaving out the useless letters and using the
new space to make the keys for common letters bigger and more readable.
For more, see the product overview.
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Do I have to purchase a separate Thai keyboard?
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No. Our app comes with everything you need to read and type English,
Thai Script and Thai Sound. We have included, free of charge, the
Paiboon Keyboard, which allows you to type all the Thai letters and
special phonetic symbols you will need for our dictionary.
The Paiboon Keyboard is specially designed for use with our app: it
features a simple layout with large, finger-friendly keys and includes
only the buttons needed for the dictionary. For example, it doesn't
include an enter key, punctuation, or other special symbols that force
general-purpose keyboards to have such tiny keys.
If you already have a system or third-party keyboard that you like,
you can of course also use it with our app.
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What does the Paiboon Keyboard look like?
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The Paiboon Keyboard is specially designed for use with our app: it
features a simple layout with large, finger-friendly keys and includes
only the buttons needed for the dictionary. For example, it doesn't
include an enter key, punctuation, or other special symbols that force
general-purpose keyboards to have such tiny keys.
The Paiboon Keyboard automatically adjusts its appearance based on
your dictionary section and settings.
For example, while searching for a Thai word using Thai Script, the
Paiboon Keyboard displays like this:
While searching for a Thai word using one one of our 12 Thai Sound
pronunciation guide
systems, the keyboard automatically adapts itself to your currenly
selected system, as shown here for the Paiboon+ system:
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Why don't I see the Paiboon Keyboard?
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How do I activate the Paiboon Keyboard?
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To use the Paiboon keyboard, you just need to go to our app
Settings screen under Keyboards > "Thai Sound" and choose
"Paiboon Keyboard."
For more information, see our app Help screen under
"Using the app" > "On-Screen Keyboard."
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How do I switch keyboards?
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We have included complete documentation showing you how to activate
the Paiboon Keyboard, and how to switch between the Paiboon Keyboard
and other keyboards, in our application Help.
See our app Help screen under "Using the app" > "On-Screen
Keyboard."
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How can I easily switch from the Paiboon Keyboard to another keyboard?
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We have included complete documentation showing you how to activate
the Paiboon Keyboard, and how to switch between the Paiboon Keyboard
and other keyboards, in our application Help.
See our app Help screen under "Using the app" > "On-Screen
Keyboard."
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Can the dictionary automatically switch between English/Thai keyboards?
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Can I make the keyboard follow which dictionary section I'm in?
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If you are using our provided Paiboon Keyboard, then yes! The Paiboon
Keyboard always automatically notices which section of the dictionary
you are in and adapts its keys appropriately. There is an English
keyboard, a Thai Script keyboard, and a custom keyboard for each
Thai Sound Pronunciation Guide system.
If you are using another keyboard (a system keyboard or a third-party
keyboard like Swype), then the answer depends on your particular keyboard
and your operating system.
For more information, see our app Help screen under
"Using the app" > "On-Screen Keyboard."
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Can I use the Paiboon Keyboard to type Thai Script in other apps?
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No. The Paiboon Keyboard is private to our app.
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Reference Questions and Answers:
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What pronunciation guide systems does the dictionary support?
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In addition to our signature Paiboon+ pronunciation guide system, the
same system used in all Thai learning materials from Paiboon Publishing, this
software lets you choose from 11 other pronunciation guide systems:
With a single tap in our Settings screen, all pronunciation guides
transform into your chosen system, including those in our comprehensive, interactive guide to
Thai. You can even look up Thai words by sound
using your chosen system.
You can find all the details on each system, including where it comes
from and exactly what symbols it uses, in our comprehensive app Help
screens under "Pronunciation Guides." If you have a specific question
about a supported system you can
contact us.
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What are the parts of speech / symbols / abbreviations used in the dictionary?
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All of these details are documented in our app's comprehensive
Help screens under "Speaking and Listening." Pay particular attention
to the sections called "Register" and "Parts of Speech."
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What's up with that app icon?
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To learn the story of our dictionary/phrasebook app icons, see
this page.
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Companion Material Questions and Answers:
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What other Thai learning materials are available?
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What else does Paiboon Publishing produce?
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Which Thai books work best with the dictionary?
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 The
Talking Thai <> English Dictionary+Phrasebook was developed by
Paiboon Publishing
and Word in the Hand™ Inc.
Paiboon
Publishing is the world's leading producer of South-East Asian
language learning materials, including the famous Thai for Beginners and the Thai for Beginners App. There's even an audio
companion to the learning books, a guide to pronunciation, and a multi-volume series on how to
Speak Like a Thai. Paiboon Publishing also
created leading offerings for the Burmese, Vietnamese, Lao, and
Cambodian languages.
Paiboon Publishing has recently expanded into the Chinese language
learning space with disruptive apps full of industry-first
innovations, such as the
Talking Chinese–English–Chinese Phrasebook and
Survival Chinese for English Speakers.
The Talking Thai <> English Dictionary+Phrasebook and Paiboon's other
Thai
language materials, both printed and electronic, work perfectly
together because they share a common teaching method and a common set
of pronunciation guide systems (for more detail on pronunciation guide
systems, see
Search-by-Sound™).
If you have a mobile device, don't miss out on this indispensable
Thai learning app from Paiboon Publishing:
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Thai for Beginners App
Thai for Beginners App
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by Benjawan Poomsan Becker
and Dominique Mayrand
Buy Now for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch from the Apple iTunes App Store
Buy Now for Android from the Google Play Store
Learn Thai from Thai language expert Benjawan Becker
Version 2.0 features include: Increase text size: small, medium,
large; autoplay an entire lesson; show or hide English text; added
English voice, which can be turned on or off. Teaches speaking,
listening and reading Thai with a native speaker and over 3,000
clearly recorded words and phrases. Follows the format of the best
selling Thai for Beginners book. Provides examples of the five tones
in Thai. Test your knowledge with build in exercises. Detailed Help
section within the app. After downloading it works without an Internet
connection: no data charges.
For more info on Paiboon Publishing products, see www.paiboonpublishing.com. Here are just some of
the titles:
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