Messenger Bot Archives - Microsoft Translator Blog http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/translator/blog/tag/messenger-bot/ Thu, 06 May 2010 08:24:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Using Tbot – the Messenger Bot powered by Microsoft Translator http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/translator/blog/2010/05/06/using-tbot-the-messenger-bot-powered-by-microsoft-translator/ Thu, 06 May 2010 08:24:00 +0000 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/translation/2010/05/06/using-tbot-the-messenger-bot-powered-by-microsoft-translator/   Tbot is an automated buddy that provides translations for Windows Live Messenger. It was first launched in 2008 as a prototype pre-dating many other bots and has since become immensely popular. You can have one-on-one conversations with Tbot or invite friends (group conversation) who speak different languages with Tbot translating for you. Following is a set of frequently asked questions about the bot.....

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Tbot is an automated buddy that provides translations for Windows Live Messenger. It was first launched in 2008 as a prototype pre-dating many other bots and has since become immensely popular. You can have one-on-one conversations with Tbot or invite friends (group conversation) who speak different languages with Tbot translating for you.

Following is a set of frequently asked questions about the bot. If you have any technical questions, please post them in our user forums.

[Q1] How to install/add Tbot in your Messenger?

1. Open your Live Messenger and look for the Add a contact or group icon.

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2. Type in mtbot@hotmail.com as your contact.  Tbot will now show up as one of your contacts.

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[Q2] How to use Tbot commands?

1. Type TBot ? to see all the Tbot commands.  You will see the following list of Tbot commands.

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2.  To see your current translation language setting, type TBot lang. For instance, if you were translating from French to English in your previous session, you will see the following.

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(If you’re going to use Tbot for the first time, this is not applicable.)

3. To change your translation language setting, type TBot change.  Tbot will first show you the list of source languages (FROM languages) as shown below.

You have to select your source language here!!  Otherwise, Tbot won’t understand any commands.  In other words, commands such as Tbot ?, Tbot lang, etc. won’t work until you select your source language.

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4. Once you select your source language, Tbot will ask you to select your target language (TO language).  Please select your target language.  Again, if you don’t select your target language here, Tbot won’t let you move on.  In other words, commands such as Tbot ?, Tbot set, etc. won’t work until you select your target language.

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5. Once the source and the target languages got selected, you’re ready to translate.  Start typing any sentences.

Here is a snapshot for TBot translating from English to Japanese.

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6.  Now if you want to change your language pairs, you can just type TBot change, and do #3 and #4 above.

     If you want to list all the TBot commands, you can type TBot ? 

7. How to use TBot set

One of the TBot commands is TBot set.  Please note that this is to set up the language for your user interface, not for your translation language(s). 

For instance, when you type TBot set, you’ll see the language list as shown below.

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If you are a Korean and want to see TBot’s instructions in Korean, you select Korean, so that you can see TBot’s instructions in Korean as shown below.

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[Q3] How to talk to someone with Tbot’s help?

Here is an example of how Takako who speaks Japanese is able to talk to Erik, who speaks Portuguese.

(1)   Takako invites Erik, and then invites Tbot.  You’ll see both Erik and Tbot on your conversation pane as shown below.

 

(2) Takako set the language pair using the Tbot command, “Tbot change”.

She set the source language to Japanese and the target language to Portuguese.

 

 

(3)   Takako and Erik can start the conversation using Japanese and Portuguese, respectively.

For instance:

 

     

That’s it!

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Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available! http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/translator/blog/2008/09/02/windows-live-messenger-translation-bot-now-available/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:43:00 +0000 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/translation/2008/09/02/windows-live-messenger-translation-bot-now-available/   The Microsoft Translator team is excited to announce the new translation bot for Windows Live Messenger! This Messenger bot does translations for you. Just add mtbot@hotmail.com to your contacts and start chatting. You can have one-on-one conversations with the bot, or you can invite a friend and chat in different languages with the bot translating for you.  As usual,....

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The Microsoft Translator team is excited to announce the new translation bot for Windows Live Messenger! This Messenger bot does translations for you. Just add mtbot@hotmail.com to your contacts and start chatting. You can have one-on-one conversations with the bot, or you can invite a friend and chat in different languages with the bot translating for you.  As usual, remember that machine translation isn’t perfect – slang especially will give the engine trouble.

You can also access Windows Live Messenger on your smartphone to use the bot to translate simple sentences while you’re traveling to other countries!

The translator bot is localized into all of the languages for which we have translation support on www.microsofttranslator.com:

The translator Bot supports the following translation languages (the latest list of languages can be found here): 

      • Arabic
      • Bulgarian
      • Chinese Simplified
      • Chinese Traditional
      • Czech
      • Danish
      • Dutch
      • English
      • Haitian Creole
      • Finnish
      • French
      • German
      • Greek
      • Hebrew
      • Italian
      • Japanese
      • Korean
      • Polish
      • Portuguese
      • Russian
      • Spanish
      • Swedish
      • Thai

More languages will be rolled out over the next several months.  Start using the bot and let us know your feedback!

FYI – at any time while you’re chatting with the bot, just type “TBot ?” to get a list of commands that the bot understands:

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Update (1/25/2010): Updated language list and links.

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