{"id":3685,"date":"2016-04-07T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/translation\/2016\/04\/07\/microsoft-translator-now-offers-the-most-comprehensive-translation-solution-for-the-ios-ecosystem\/"},"modified":"2016-04-07T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:25:00","slug":"microsoft-translator-now-offers-the-most-comprehensive-translation-solution-for-the-ios-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2016\/04\/07\/microsoft-translator-now-offers-the-most-comprehensive-translation-solution-for-the-ios-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Translator now offers the most comprehensive translation solution for the iOS ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today we are announcing two new features for the Microsoft Translator app for iOS<\/a>, making it the most comprehensive free translation solution for iPhone, iPad and iPod users. In addition to text, conversation and image translation already available, we are adding support for offline (i.e. not connected to the Internet) and webpage translation.<\/p>\n Until now, iPhone users needed an Internet connection if they wanted to translate on their mobile devices. Now, by downloading the Microsoft Translator app and the needed offline language packs, iOS users can get near online-quality translations even when they are not connected to the Internet. This means no expensive roaming charges or not being able to communicate when a data connection is spotty or unavailable.<\/p>\n The new offline language packs use the same Deep Neural Network technology<\/a> we recently introduced in the Microsoft Translator app for Android<\/a>. Deep Neural Networks, also known as Deep Learning, are a state-of-the-art machine learning technology that have been used for almost a year by the Microsoft Translator online cloud service to deliver high-quality translations to Microsoft Translator apps<\/a> and Bing.com\/translator<\/a>. They are also used to power the speech translation technology in the new speech translation API<\/a> and Skype Translator<\/a>.<\/p>\n Deep Neural nets allowed Microsoft Translator to be the first translation service to deliver online-quality* translations when downloadable language packs were added to the Android app<\/a> in February 2016. Now available for iOS users as well, they provide the highest-quality offline translation available on the market.<\/p>\n In conjunction with this release, we are also adding 34 new languages to the list of offline languages supported by Microsoft Translator. Language packs can now be downloaded for all of the following languages. You can always view up-to-date language lists at www.microsoft.com\/translator\/languages.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n