Author: Microsoft Translator
Korean Becomes Microsoft Translator’s 11th Neural Network Translation Language
Last year Microsoft announced the release of its Neural Network based translation system for 10 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Today, Korean is being added to the list. Neural Network translation uses the full context of a sentence to translate words based not only on a few words before and after it,….
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Microsoft Translator publicly releases speech translation corpus
Christian Federmann, senior program manager As part of an ongoing effort within Microsoft to improve the accuracy of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, Microsoft Translator is publicly releasing a set of data that includes multiple conversations between bilingual speakers who are speaking French, German and English. This corpus, which was produced by Microsoft using bilingual speakers, aims to create a standard….
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Translate all your email, on any device, with the new Translator add-in for Outlook
The new Translator for Outlook add-in goes together like chips and dip! It allows users to easily, quickly and securely translate emails from any of the 60+ supported Microsoft Translator languages straight from your favorite email tool: Outlook. Whether you’re on Outlook in Windows, iOS or on the web (Android to come soon! Stay tuned!), and for both your professional Office….
Communications Startup, Layer, Uses the Translator Text API to Connect World Leaders
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, the messaging startup Layer provided tools as part of the Forum’s app to allow world leaders to communicate across the language barrier. The app allowed 3,000 leaders from 100 different countries to send messages in their own native language — and the receiver to instantly translate it into his or….
Microsoft Translator introduces the world’s first personal universal translator
The personal universal translator has long been a dream of science fiction, but today that dream becomes a reality: Microsoft Translator now translates in-person conversations in real time with up to 100 speakers using their own smartphone, tablet, or PC. This new feature allows people to communicate in different languages face to face using their own language on their….
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Microsoft Translator launching Neural Network based translations for all its speech languages
Microsoft Translator is now powering all speech translation through state-of-the-art neural networks. All speech translation apps that use this service, such as Skype Translator and the Microsoft Translator app for mobile devices, are now using neural network technology. Furthermore, the technology is available to all developers and end-users who want to use the Microsoft Translator speech API to integrate the….
Fine-tune and customize your translations in Translator for Bing
Now available in Translator for Bing (www.bing.com/translator) – use categories to get text translations that are fine-tuned to the topic at hand, or even fully customized to your organization’s terminology and style. Just type “?category=xyz”, where xyz is the category, at the end of the URL (for instance www.bing.com/translator?category=tech). If you need to translate tech-related, speech-based content, or frequently translate….
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Introducing Filipino and five other Austronesian languages: Fijian, Malagasy, Samoan, Tahitian and Tongan, for Microsoft Translator
Today, Microsoft Translator announces the availability of six Austronesian languages in its core text translation API: Fijian, Filipino, Malagasy, Samoan, Tahitian, and Tongan. Being able to improve communications that traverses a breadth of geography is important when supporting communications between peoples, business and governments and to bring people of different cultures closer together. Austronesian languages are spoken as far west….
Introducing Russian Speech Translation for Microsoft Translator
Today, Microsoft Translator announces the availability of the Russian language as its ninth speech translation language in addition to the existing ones: Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish. With this release, businesses, developers and end users alike will have access to this language in the various apps and services offered or powered by Microsoft Translator:….
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Communicate quicker and better with Phrasebooks and the Bilingual Dictionary in the new version of the Microsoft Translator apps!
We’ve got a couple of great new features available now in the Microsoft Translator apps for iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire—Phrasebooks and the Bilingual Dictionary. If you’re trying to communicate in a language you don’t understand, phrasebooks can help you find the sentence, phrase, or word(s) you’re looking for quicker than ever. If you are a language learner, the new….
