Category: Developers
Azure AI Custom Translator Neural Dictionary: Delivering Higher Terminology Translation Quality
Today, we are super excited to announce the release of neural dictionary, a significant translation quality improvement to our platform. In this blog post, we will explore the neural dictionary feature. Introduction Neural dictionary is an extension to our dynamic dictionary and phrase dictionary features in Azure AI Translator. Both allow our users to customize the translation output by providing their….
Microsoft Custom Translator Platform Upgrade: Delivering Higher Custom Translation Quality
As businesses increasingly look to expand their global reach, the demand for high-quality, accurate translations has never been higher. At Microsoft, we’re committed to providing the most powerful and effective translation tools available, and we’re excited to announce the latest upgrade to our Custom Translator platform. In recent years, Custom Translator was upgraded to state-of-the-art Transformer architecture as part of….
Introducing Lower Sorbian
Microsoft Translator now supports 129 languages Today, we are introducing a new language to the ever-growing list of Translator languages – welcome Lower Sorbian! Adding Lower Sorbian to Translator was made possible by the Sorbian language community, in particular the Foundation for the Sorbian People, the Sorbian Institute and the Witaj Language Centre which donated data to create the new language system, following up….
Announcing four new languages: Konkani, Maithili, Sindhi and Sinhala
Microsoft Translator now supports a total of 16 Indian languages Today, we are delighted to announce that we have added three new Indian languages to Microsoft Translator – Konkani, Maithili, and Sindhi. Along with this, we are also adding support for Sinhala, the official language of Sri Lanka. With this latest release, Microsoft is further democratizing access to information in….
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Document Translation now available in the Language Studio
We are excited to announce the release of a new UI feature to translate documents in language studio without writing a single line of code. Enterprises can deploy this solution across their organization, enabling employees to translate documents on demand. The feature is powered by Azure Cognitive Services (ACS) Translator document translation API, which can translate documents in variety of….
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Introducing 13 New African Languages
Microsoft Translator increases number of supported languages to 124! Today, we are excited to announce that we have added 13 new African languages to Microsoft Translator! Following last year’s release of Somali and Zulu, this release highlights our continued efforts of empowering African language communities to achieve more. Microsoft Translator now supports: chiShona (7 million speakers) Hausa (72 million speakers)….
Bing’s gendered translations tackle bias in translation
We’re excited to announce that, as of today, masculine and feminine alternative translations are available for when translating from English to Spanish, French, or Italian. You can try out this new feature in both Bing Search and Bing Translator verticals. Over the last few years, the field of Machine Translation (MT) has been revolutionized by the advent of transformer models,….
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Announcing intelligent message translation in Microsoft Teams for mobile devices
Making Teams for iOS & Android mobile devices the best tool for multi-lingual collaboration with intelligent chat message translation. Effective collaboration and communication in a chat requires tools and features that understand who you are, where and how you like to communicate. Microsoft Teams on mobile devices can understand customers’ preferred languages and how customers like to interact with their….
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Announcing live translation for captions in Microsoft Teams
We’re excited to announce the availability of live translation for captions. With this new feature, users can fully participate in meetings where the spoken language(s) may not be familiar or their most comfortable language to understand. Now meeting participants can read the live captions translated to their language of preference. Using Microsoft Speech Translation technology powered by Azure Cognitive Services,….
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Translate scanned PDF documents with Document translation
Today, the Document translation feature of Translator, a Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service, adds the ability to translate PDF documents containing scanned image content, eliminating the need for customers to preprocess them through an OCR engine before translation. Document translation was made generally available last year, May 25, 2021, allowing customers to translate entire documents and batches of documents into more than 110….
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