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Which is better: Hunspell or Microsoft Office Spellcheck with Wordfast? Thread poster: Giuseppe Bellone
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In Wordfast 2.4.1 we have the option:
Hunspell or Microsoft Office Spellcheck.
Is there any big difference? Which is better in your experience? Or isn't there much difference?
Thank you.
MisterBeppe
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Samuel Murray 
Netherlands
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| Can't comment specifically | Feb 27, 2011 |
MisterBeppe wrote:
In Wordfast 2.4.1 we have the option:
Hunspell or Microsoft Office Spellcheck.
Is there any big difference?
I've never really used spell-checking in WFP, so I can't help with that specific query (i.e. which one is easier to use in WFP), but I can tell you that I often spell-check documents in both Microsoft Word's and LibreOffice's (Hunspell) spellcheckers, because they have different strengths and weaknesses.
For rarer languages, the Hunspell dictionary might be more simplistic, but for languages with active language communities, the Hunspell dictionary might be more up to date. There may even be more than one Hunspell dictionary to choose from, in some languages (developed by different companies).
For Italian, there seems to be two different Hunspell dictionaries to choose from:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/dict-it
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Dict_it_IT
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| Thank Samuel, I simply forgot... | Feb 27, 2011 |
... to tell that my laguages are: English, French and Italian.
Sorry, I forgot, and I kow that in certain languages there are differences.
Thanks a lot for your answer.
MisterBeppe
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| Could be because Swedish is a "rare" language | Feb 27, 2011 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
For rarer languages, the Hunspell dictionary might be more simplistic, but for languages with active language communities, the Hunspell dictionary might be more up to date. There may even be more than one Hunspell dictionary to choose from, in some languages (developed by different companies).
Or because compounds are written together. For Swedish, Hunspell is pretty useless as it doesn't appear to be able to handle compounds such as "köksfönster" (kitchen window), but has no problem with "kök" and "fönster".
I don't use WF, but have found this a problem when using MemoQ as the only realtime spellchecking uses HS.
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| Is Hunspell updated regularly then? | Feb 27, 2011 |
Is this what you mean or perhaps I misunderstand something?
Thanks.
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Alex Lago
Spain
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English to Spanish
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In my experience the MS Word spell checker for my languages (Spanish & English) is much better than the Hunspell.
However I don't recommend using MS Word directly within Wordfast as it takes ages and is a very slow process. I have discovered it is in fact a lot quicker (4 or 5 times quicker for me) to spell check the file directly in Word using the Preview in Word feature of Wordfast. I then spell check in Word and if Word finds any errors I go to Wordfast an correct them, this is i... See more In my experience the MS Word spell checker for my languages (Spanish & English) is much better than the Hunspell.
However I don't recommend using MS Word directly within Wordfast as it takes ages and is a very slow process. I have discovered it is in fact a lot quicker (4 or 5 times quicker for me) to spell check the file directly in Word using the Preview in Word feature of Wordfast. I then spell check in Word and if Word finds any errors I go to Wordfast an correct them, this is in fact a lot quicker than doing it all in Wordfast ▲ Collapse
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esperantisto
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SITE LOCALIZER | Depends on the language, I guess | Mar 1, 2011 |
As for Russian, Hunspell is good and Microsoft’s spellcheck is crap.
For example, Hunspell will suggest the correct spelling for
and Microsoft will fail.
Besides, Hunspell dictionaries are plain text files that you... See more As for Russian, Hunspell is good and Microsoft’s spellcheck is crap.
For example, Hunspell will suggest the correct spelling for
and Microsoft will fail.
Besides, Hunspell dictionaries are plain text files that you can easily modify to your needs. Or even create your own dictionary from zero if you wish. ▲ Collapse
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| Thanks Esperantisto | Mar 1, 2011 |
I see. I only use Italian, French and English.
I thank you very much for your comment.
Have a nice day.
MisterBeppe
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Marina Aleyeva
Israel
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English to Russian
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| My experience, too | Mar 1, 2011 |
Alex Lago wrote:
I don't recommend using MS Word directly within Wordfast as it takes ages and is a very slow process. I have discovered it is in fact a lot quicker (4 or 5 times quicker for me) to spell check the file directly in Word using the Preview in Word feature of Wordfast. I then spell check in Word and if Word finds any errors I go to Wordfast an correct them, this is in fact a lot quicker than doing it all in Wordfast
This has been my experience, too. Microsoft Office Spellchecker takes ages to check directly in WF Pro, even on small files.
And I wonder if it actually uses custom.dic files? I have built up 9 different custom.dic's over the years. Not being able to plug them in would be a disadvantage.
[Edited at 2011-03-01 13:19 GMT]
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| Thanks Marina. | Mar 1, 2011 |
I'll let Hunspell do the job then! Have a nice day.
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Andrey Gunko
Ukraine
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English to Ukrainian
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| Thanks Andrey | Feb 11, 2014 |
Thank you very much for your suggestion.
Best regards,
Giuseppe
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neilmac
Spain
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| WFC + MS Word | Feb 13, 2014 |
I use WF Classic and Word, preferably in an XP framework. I only spellcheck the finished drafts after cleaning up and have never had any issues. I don't really see the point of spellchecking an unfinished draft.
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 09:43
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Andrey Gunko wrote: Hunspell is better IMHO. The reasons can be seen here.
Where on that page are the reasons listed, Andrey?
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