Category: Developers
Creating a Web Application with Translation provided by Microsoft Translator.
Creating a Web Application with Translation provided by Microsoft Translator. In this Walkthrough, you’ll learn how to create a Web application that uses the Microsoft Translator API to translate text that was input by the user. You’ll build the page using ASP.NET and the free Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. If you already have a Visual Studio installation, you’ll….
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Building Windows 8 Store Apps Using Microsoft Translator
The Microsoft Translator API is a hosted API that allows you to add machine translation to your app. It fully supports Windows Store Apps, so if you want to add localization to these apps, doing so is as easy as subscribing to and using the API. We’ve built out step-by-step instructions and assets that demonstrates how to do this this,….
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Breakthroughs in Translating Speech from our Research Teams
This is the year of machine learning and big data. Whether it is predicting political results, supercharging your Excel spreadsheets, helping map queries to intent in Search, or even customizing a translation engine to best fit your content – these research areas are playing a starring role in transforming technology and productivity. A couple of weeks back, at the 14th….
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Announcing the Microsoft Translator Hub for commercial use – a comprehensive solution for custom translation quality
Delivering free, easy-to-use tools to enable you and your community to collaboratively customize translations based on your content and scenarios. As machine translation researchers, we are well aware of the challenges in applying brute force computing power to solve translation problems. We know that no matter how much processing power you throw at translation, it is still a stretch to….
Microsoft Translator celebrates International Mother Language Day with the release of Hmong
In celebration of International Mother Language Day, we are pleased to announce the addition of the Hmong language to our list of supported languages, made possible by a close partnership with the Hmong community. Anyone can now try out the new language on the Bing Translator site, or call it via the Microsoft Translator web service (Hmong Daw, language code….
Top Sites Going Global with Translator API
The ability to use language and the capacity to translate between languages is one of the characteristics that define us as humans. Over the last decade, world class researchers – both at our own research labs and around the world have been working on the problem of machine translation, the results of which you are able to enjoy today on….
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Announcement: New Microsoft Translator release delivers community tools to customize translations and API enhancements
I am pleased to announce the release of the latest version of Microsoft Translator, with a focus on user features and user experience. This release brings some major new features, and a slew of improvements based on feedback from you – our users and partners.Here are some of the highlights of this release: Microsoft Translator Widget: Manage Translators: The popular….
Indonesian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese are now available!
What do Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Indonesian have in common? They all have very passionate communities that have for a while been encouraging our team to add support for these languages. A glance at the comments on this blog, and on our forums show the enthusiasm with which users have pursued adding these languages, and that has spurred our team on….
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Say hello to performance & security
Over the last few months, while our data and languages specialists have been continuing their focus on improving language coverage and quality, the rest of the team doubled down on performance, infrastructure and bug fixing. After the big release at MIX we took the next release as an opportunity to focus on ensuring a strong foundation which can support the….
Collaborative Translations: Announcing the next version of Microsoft Translator technology – V2 APIs
There have been many stories about brain vs. brawn. More recently, the human brain and computer brawn have been pitted against each other in arenas such as one-on-one chess. We all have been hearing about applying large amounts of computing power to solve problems like translation by sheer force. As a high-performance cloud service offered by Microsoft, we continue to….
