Kerog: Tibetan Offline

KEROG (Tibetan: skad sgyur rogs pa) — the translator's companion, not the translator. Kerog helps you read and understand Tibetan. Give it a voice note, a photograph of a page, typed text or someone speaking, and it divides each sentence into its words and shows each word's meanings from ten Tibetan dictionaries. Everything runs on the phone, so it works without a connection. Online translators handle whole sentences better, and with a good connection they are worth using. Kerog is for the times they cannot be reached: travelling with little or no data, in a conversation, or when a voice note has just arrived. THE GLOSS Each word shows its meanings from Rangjung Yeshe, Jim Valby, Ives Waldo, Dan Martin, Tsepak Rigdzin and others — 265,000 entries in all. Tap a word for its full entry, each dictionary named, including where they disagree. Gloss looks up every word and stops there, for…