Design and Implementation of a Professional Electronic Dictionary for the Multimedia Technology Bilingual Curriculum

Multimedia Technology is one of bilingual curriculums in our department and it is based on English original edition teaching materials. In order to help our students to read the materials more smoothly and understand the knowledge in them better, we designed and implemented a professional electronic dictionary. In this dictionary, students could not only query the Chinese meaning of a vocabulary, but also view, the professional meaning explanation and related professional knowledge instruction about this vocabulary. What's more, we adopted online audio capture and playback technology as well as phonetic symbols input and display technology. So that students could also view the phonetic symbols and listen to the pronunciation of the vocabulary. And this will greatly help them to improve their spoken professional English. Fantastically, teachers could conveniently manage and update vocabulary information through the friendly user interfaces in the dictionary. If a teacher input another bilingual, curriculum's vocabulary information into the dictionary, it will soon be change into another bilingual curriculum's dictionary. The architecture and function models of the dictionary were introduced in this paper. On this basis, the realization of online audio capture and playback as well as phonetic symbols input and display was described in detail.