Microsoft Translator Blog

When you’re learning a new language, sometimes it can be hard to find just the right word. That is why we are introducing the brand new English Bilingual Dictionary feature on Translator for Bing. The feature is available for English language learners and English speakers learning a foreign language. The new feature displays alternative translations from or to English, examples….

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Microsoft helps translate your Arabic conversations face-to-face or across the globe Today, Microsoft Translator adds Modern Standard Arabic to its list of conversation languages for speech-to-speech translation. Whether you are using Skype Translator to communicate across distances or the Microsoft Translator apps on Android or iOS to communicate face to face, we continue to help break the language barrier by….

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The newest version of the Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT) is now available for developers who want an easy way of developing apps with multi language support. MAT v4.0 is an integrated Visual Studio tool which enables developers to streamline localization workflows for their apps. The toolkit helps you localize your apps in any of the supported languages with localization file….

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Today, we are announcing two new features for our Microsoft Translator apps for iOS and Android: a new AI powered on-device translation engine available for Android, and a new image translation feature for iOS that uses state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology from Microsoft. New Deep Neural Network-Powered Offline Language Packs for Android Since we launched the Microsoft Translator app….

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Do you have questions or feedback about the Microsoft Translator API service or the Translator Hub? You can now submit them to our new UserVoice site at translatorbusiness.uservoice.com. Just like the MSDN forum, UserVoice lets you report any issues and get answers to your questions. You can now also vote on new ideas to help guide our product features and….

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Today, we are changing how companies approach automatic translation by leveraging our artificial intelligence expertise to enable anyone to quickly and easily customize translation systems, even without large amounts of previously translated sentences. In addition, we are giving you the chance to progressively improve the system as more data becomes available. We are making these updates because every company is….

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It’s been just a little over a year since its initial launch in December 2014, Skype Translator is now available to all Skype for Windows desktop users. The app, powered by Microsoft Translator, lets users have translated voice-to-voice conversations in 7 different languages: Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. They can also IM in over 50….

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It’s been a great year at Microsoft Translator. We’re grateful to have been able to offer so many new ways to break down the language barriers that separate people. In addition to launching new languages, we’ve also introduced a host of new apps to help people communicate whenever and wherever they need instant translation. Here are some of our highlights….

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When you’re travelling abroad, sometimes it can be tough to figure out the best places to get a bite to eat, grab a cup of coffee, or go out for a night on the town. Even if you have read reviews online, when you end up getting there it may be missing that certain je ne sais quoi you were….

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Whether you’re in a taxicab, a restaurant, or just trying to ask for directions on the street, communicating with someone speaking another language is not always easy, natural or quick. That’s why the Microsoft Translator app is now offering the new conversation feature in both its Android and Apple versions. With this feature, we are offering a more natural way….

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