Year: 2018
Assistive Technology podcast: Will Lewis talks about Microsoft Translator’s role in bridging communication gaps
Will Lewis, Principal Technical Program Manager with Microsoft Translator, spoke with the Indiana Assistive Technology Act (INDATA) Project at Easter Seals Crossroads about why Translator is an important assistive technology tool, and how this tool can impact how we engage and communicate with one another. You have someone who is visiting from China, they don’t speak English. How do….
Webinar: Learn how to use PubNub’s Translator BLOCK to build translation capabilities into your apps
PubNub, a company that offers real-time infrastructure-as-a-service, has partnered with Microsoft Translator and integrated our latest text API into its offering. Now, developers can leverage Translator’s newest features and capabilities through ChatEngine, an open and extensible chat SDK and APIs for building 1:1 group chats quickly. Register here and watch the free webinar – “Serverless Language Translation On-the-Fly with….
Microsoft Translator launches Levantine Arabic as a new speech translation language
Microsoft Translator has released Levantine, an Arabic dialect spoken in countries such as Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria, as its latest AI-powered speech translation language. It will help businesses, educators, travelers, and non-profits communicate across the language barrier with Levantine speakers during meetings, presentations, and Skype calls. credit: Photo of Beit ed-Dine in Lebanon by Oida666 from Wikimedia Commons ….
Onslow County Schools in North Carolina uses Microsoft Translator for student success and parent-teacher communication
Did you know that Microsoft Translator can be used in schools to help students who are English Language Learners pass their final exams and facilitate communication between parents and teachers? Read all about how the Microsoft Translator live feature breaks language barriers and provides translation capabilities for diverse populations. Microsoft for Education blog
Mac users can now translate Microsoft Word documents into 60+ languages
Microsoft Office 365 announced the availability of Translator for Word on Mac, an intelligent, cloud-based service that can translate selected words or entire documents into over 60 languages. Read all about Word’s translation features here, and check out the Office 365 blog for more information about their latest features. Check out more products that feature Microsoft Translator Presentation Translator….
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Microsoft Research podcast: “Not lost in translation with Arul Menezes”
“I think the goal for translation today is to make the language barrier disappear for people in everyday contexts…at work, when they’re traveling, so that they can communicate without a language barrier.” – Arul Menezes Arul Menezes, Partner Research Manager of the Machine Translation team, spoke with Microsoft Research’s podcast team about the advances in machine translation, and how….
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PubNub integrates Microsoft Translator to enable multilingual chats
PubNub, a company that offers real-time infrastructure-as-a-service, has partnered with Microsoft Translator to integrate the Translator Text API in its offering. Developers can now leverage Translator’s newest features and capabilities through ChatEngine, an open and extensible chat SDK and APIs for building powerful 1:1 group chats quickly. To read more about how to get started with PubNub and how….
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Microsoft Translator adds Icelandic as a supported language
Microsoft Translator is excited to announce the launch of our latest AI-powered text translation language: Icelandic. It is the first publicly available neural machine translation (NMT) system. Building this system was a significant technical challenge for the research team due to the limited amount of available training data. To achieve the required translation quality, the team tested and relied on several….
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Customizable speech transcription, translation, and synthesis now available in the unified Speech service
Integrate speech into your apps, workflows, and websites using the unified Speech service, announced this week at Microsoft Build. Speech combines the capabilities of the existing Translator Speech API, Bing Speech API, and Custom Speech Service (preview) into a unified and fully customizable service. You can now use the speech to text, speech translation, and text to speech services with….
Customize your neural translations with the new Translator custom feature
Translate your company’s content better than ever by customizing Microsoft Translator’s state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation (NMT) with the new Translator custom feature, announced this week at Microsoft Build. Use the new custom feature with the new Translator text translation API (V3) or the preview of the new unified Speech service. With the custom feature, you can now customize not only….
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