{"id":5235,"date":"2017-04-06T14:04:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/translation\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2017-04-06T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:04:38","slug":"japanese-becomes-the-10th-speech-translation-language-supported-by-microsoft-translator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/japanese-becomes-the-10th-speech-translation-language-supported-by-microsoft-translator\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese becomes the 10th speech translation language supported by Microsoft Translator"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today, Microsoft Translator announces the availability of its 10th<\/sup> speech translation language: Japanese. This new language is now available across all Microsoft Translator supported technologies and products along with the already released nine other speech translation languages<\/a>: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.<\/p>\n Microsoft Translator is the first end-to-end speech translation solution optimized for real-life conversations (vs. simple human to machine commands) available on the market. It is one of the services in Microsoft\u2019s portfolio of artificial intelligence technologies<\/a> designed to make AI accessible to all.<\/p>\n Speech translation is a hard problem to solve, as is always the case when machines are trying to mimic a deeply human capability.\u00a0 It uses two neural-network based Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies: Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation. It also uses a unique natural language processing technology (TrueText) and a speech synthesizer, aka \u201cText to Speech\u201d, which enables users to hear, and not only read, the translation.<\/p>\n These technologies are then connected to perform the speech translation function:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n With this release, businesses, developers, and end users alike will be able to use Japanese in the various apps and services offered or powered by Microsoft Translator:<\/p>\n You can translate any of the supported 10 Translator speech languages into any of the supported 60+ Translator text languages<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition to the availability of Japanese as a speech translation language, starting today, all text translations from English to Japanese (and vice-versa) in Microsoft products and services will exclusively use these new and improved neural network translations system. Whether you translate a webpage in Edge<\/a>, an email in Outlook<\/a>, or a simple sentence on www.bing.com\/translator<\/a>, all of your translations will be performed with our state of the art neural network systems.<\/p>\n Read more about this news in our Microsoft Japan blog<\/a> (in Japanese)<\/p>\n Learn More<\/p>\n Today, Microsoft Translator announces the availability of its 10th speech translation language: Japanese. This new language is now available across all Microsoft Translator supported technologies and products along with the already released nine other speech translation languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Microsoft Translator is the first end-to-end speech translation solution optimized for real-life conversations….<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n
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