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Celebrating International Mother Language Day with the Launch of New Languages & Features
Today Microsoft celebrates the International Mother Language Day alongside UNESCO, with the goal to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism across the world. Advancements in technology to support and preserve languages create greater awareness of the linguistic and cultural traditions celebrated throughout the world, which in turn promote understanding, tolerance, and dialogue. With the proliferation of digital content on the web,….
Ready to Reenergize: Community Unveiling of the Custom Mayan to Spanish Translation System
Special guest post from Microsoft Research Connections Director Kristin Tolle, who has been working with the Mayan community to enable them to preserve their language. Microsoft Translator Hub provides a means for communities and businesses to build custom language translation systems. At X’Caret, the Mayan eco-archaeological park in Carmen Del playa, the Rector of the Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana….
Translator app now available for Windows Phone 8
The free Bing Translator app for Windows Phone continues to be one of the most popular and best reviewed applications for the Windows Phone – surpassing a million downloads and garnering average ratings between 4 and 5 stars since release. Combining Augmented Reality Translation using your camera, speech & text translation, word-of-the-day live tiles and a travel optimized offline mode….
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Breakthroughs in Translating Speech from our Research Teams
This is the year of machine learning and big data. Whether it is predicting political results, supercharging your Excel spreadsheets, helping map queries to intent in Search, or even customizing a translation engine to best fit your content – these research areas are playing a starring role in transforming technology and productivity. A couple of weeks back, at the 14th….
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Announcing the Microsoft Translator Hub for commercial use – a comprehensive solution for custom translation quality
Delivering free, easy-to-use tools to enable you and your community to collaboratively customize translations based on your content and scenarios. As machine translation researchers, we are well aware of the challenges in applying brute force computing power to solve translation problems. We know that no matter how much processing power you throw at translation, it is still a stretch to….
Welcoming Yahoo! Babel Fish users!
We are pleased to welcome Yahoo! Babel Fish users to the Bing Translator family. We have been working closely with our friends at Yahoo! to make this an easy transition, and Bing Translator is a natural upgrade to the experience with Yahoo! Babel Fish. We support all the languages you used with Babel Fish and provide a superset of all….
To boldly go… Going places with the most innovative Translator app for Windows Phone
Something amazing happened as GPS navigation devices started making their way into the hands and cars of people around the world – it created a new band of adventurer. Road maps were discarded, atlases gathered dust and schedules filled with more destinations. The GPS gave it’s user that bit of extra confidence to boldly go where they might have otherwise….
Microsoft Translator celebrates International Mother Language Day with the release of Hmong
In celebration of International Mother Language Day, we are pleased to announce the addition of the Hmong language to our list of supported languages, made possible by a close partnership with the Hmong community. Anyone can now try out the new language on the Bing Translator site, or call it via the Microsoft Translator web service (Hmong Daw, language code….
Top Sites Going Global with Translator API
The ability to use language and the capacity to translate between languages is one of the characteristics that define us as humans. Over the last decade, world class researchers – both at our own research labs and around the world have been working on the problem of machine translation, the results of which you are able to enjoy today on….
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Showcasing some great consumer applications powered by Microsoft Translator API
While we are quite proud of the applications and services that we have built, we are even prouder of the many wonderful applications built by our partners using our extensive set of APIs. In this series, we wish to highlight some of these apps. Polyglot – an elegant Windows Phone translator application You might have used the free Translator app….
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