Universal Access

Start understanding Chinese in popular websites, your email, chat and more.

Imagine suddenly having the gift of understanding and speaking Chinese. Which websites would you visit? Who would you want to chat with--in Chinese? Start understanding news headlines, emails and documents as easily as reading English. It's all possible with the Loqu8 iCE Learn Chinese.

 

Operating systems and apps

Microsoft Windows and language tools

  • Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro (x86, x64) in desktop mode
  • Microsoft Windows 7 (x86, x64)
  • Microsoft Windows Vista (x86, x64)
  • Microsoft Windows XP
  • Microsoft Input Method Editor (IME)
  • Microsoft IME with Hand Writing (CH)
  • Microsoft Windows: Windows Explorer, Task Manager, etc.

Loqu8 iCE is performance-tuned to take advantage of 64-bit operating systems, like Windows 7 and Windows 8 with multi-core, multi-threaded processors (Intel Core i3, i5, i7; AMD A-Series, Phenom, Athlon).

 

Web browsers

Enjoy your favorite websites--in Chinese

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 (Windows 7, Windows 8 desktop)
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
  • Mozilla Firefox 21 New!
  • Google Chrome 26  New!
 

Productivity applications

Email, word processors, spreadsheets and more

  • Adobe Acrobat XI, 9  New!
  • Adobe Reader XI, X  New!
  • Microsoft Office 2010, 2007
  • Microsoft Office Web with SkyDrive
  • Microsoft Word 2010, 2007
  • Microsoft Excel 2010, 2007
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, 2007
  • Microsoft Access 2010, 2007
  • Nitro PDF Reader 2
  • OpenOffice 3.3

Customer feedback

About Universal Access

Loqu8 iCE works with the most popular websites, email, chat and productivity applications, including:

  

Chat

  • Google
  • Skype
  • Pidgin (LiveScan only)

Email

  • Google Gmail (web)
  • Yahoo! Mail (web)
  • Microsoft Hotmail (web)
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Outlook.com (web)
  • Microsoft Windows Live Mail (web)

Chinese Websites

  • Baidu
  • Bible Gateway*
  • Flickr*
  • Google*
  • Hudong
  • Ifeng
  • MDBG
  • Microsoft Live SkyDrive**
  • Nciku
  • Sina
  • SoSo
  • Tudou
  • Twitter*
  • Wall Street Journal*
  • Wikipedia*
  • Yahoo*
  • Youku
  • YouTube*
  • zdic.net

*Chinese site
**With Chinese documents
Third-party applications and sites are subject change. Interoperability verified but not guaranteed.

Limitations

Since the release of Loqu8 iCE 6, a few applications are no longer "well behaved" and will not function with Loqu8's LiveScan and HighlightScan. These are:

 

- Microsoft Office 2013; Office 2010 is compatible
- Tencent QQ

 

Loqu8 iCE 6.7, released May 2013, added support for:
- Adobe Reader XI
- Adobe Acrobat Pro XI
- Google Chrome 25 and 26
- Mozilla Firefox 21
- Microsoft Word 2013 (beta)

New! ClipboardScan monitors the Windows clipboard for Chinese text when you use Ctrl+C or Edit > Copy. Enable ClipboardScan from Settings.
The Chinese-English translation dictionary was updated and expanded to over 105,000 entries.

Update

For PCs with Microsoft Windows 8 (desktop), 7, Vista or XP