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Translation Stage

Language Development
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Mediums

Written
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Integrations

FieldWorks
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Localization

English
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Developer Needed

No
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Linguistic Expertise

Yes
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Release Status

General Availability
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Pricing

Free (Unrestricted)
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Offline Usage

Yes
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License

MIT

FieldWorks

FieldWorks consists of software tools that help you manage linguistic and cultural data. FieldWorks supports tasks ranging from the initial entry of collected data through to the preparation of data for publication, including dictionary development, interlinearization of texts, morphological analysis, and other publications.

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Testimonials

After converting a long standing toolbox project over to FLEx, the user (a more senior user) gave out a couple Oohh's and AAhh's when I showed her around FLEx. She seems quite happy to be in FLEx.

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Additional Description

Word Collection – A significant feature of FLEx is support for Rapid Word Collection, a process to quickly develop a semantically categorized glossary that can be used as a thesaurus and later developed into a dictionary.

Send/Receive – Send/Receive allows FLEx and WeSay users to share data with each other over the Internet, a USB drive or a local shared drive.

FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) – FLEx is the lexical and text tools component of SIL FieldWorks. It is an open source desktop application designed to help field linguists perform many common tasks.

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