{"id":6941,"date":"2008-09-02T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/translation\/2008\/09\/02\/windows-live-messenger-translation-bot-now-available\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T04:43:00","slug":"windows-live-messenger-translation-bot-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2008\/09\/02\/windows-live-messenger-translation-bot-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/BlogFileStorage\/blogs_msdn\/translation\/WindowsLiveWriter\/WindowsLiveMessengertranslationbotnowava_12361\/clip_image001_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image001\" src=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/BlogFileStorage\/blogs_msdn\/translation\/WindowsLiveWriter\/WindowsLiveMessengertranslationbotnowava_12361\/clip_image001_thumb.jpg\" width=\"156\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"mailto:mtbot@hotmail.com\">mtbot@hotmail.com<\/a> 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.&#160; As usual, remember that machine translation isn\u2019t perfect \u2013 slang especially will give the engine trouble. <\/p>\n<p>You can also access Windows Live Messenger on your smartphone to use the bot to translate simple sentences while you\u2019re traveling to other countries! <\/p>\n<p>The translator bot is localized into all of the languages for which we have translation support on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsofttranslator.com\">www.microsofttranslator.com<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>The translator Bot supports the following translation languages (the latest list of languages can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsofttranslator.com\/help\/#Languages\">here<\/a>):&#160; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Arabic <\/li>\n<li>Bulgarian<\/li>\n<li>Chinese Simplified <\/li>\n<li>Chinese Traditional <\/li>\n<li>Czech<\/li>\n<li>Danish<\/li>\n<li>Dutch <\/li>\n<li>English<\/li>\n<li>Haitian Creole<\/li>\n<li>Finnish<\/li>\n<li>French <\/li>\n<li>German<\/li>\n<li>Greek<\/li>\n<li>Hebrew <\/li>\n<li>Italian <\/li>\n<li>Japanese <\/li>\n<li>Korean <\/li>\n<li>Polish<\/li>\n<li>Portuguese <\/li>\n<li>Russian <\/li>\n<li>Spanish<\/li>\n<li>Swedish<\/li>\n<li>Thai<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More languages will be rolled out over the next several months.&#160; Start using the bot and let us know your feedback! <\/p>\n<p>FYI &#8211; at any time while you\u2019re chatting with the bot, just type \u201cTBot ?\u201d to get a list of commands that the bot understands: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/BlogFileStorage\/blogs_msdn\/translation\/WindowsLiveWriter\/WindowsLiveMessengertranslationbotnowava_12361\/clip_image002_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image002\" src=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/BlogFileStorage\/blogs_msdn\/translation\/WindowsLiveWriter\/WindowsLiveMessengertranslationbotnowava_12361\/clip_image002_thumb.jpg\" width=\"397\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update (1\/25\/2010): <em>Updated language list and links.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; The Microsoft Translator team is excited to announce the new translation bot for Windows Live Messenger! 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