Category: Product News
Twenty is a nice round number – say ยินดีต้อนรับ (welcome) to our newest release!
In my last update I had asked about what languages you wanted Microsoft Translator service to support. Thank you for taking the time to respond. We are pleased to announce that last week we added Czech (CSY), Danish (DAN), Greek (ELL), Swedish (SVE) and Thai (THA), taking our language count to a nice round 20. Here is the complete list….
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Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?
I am pleased to announce that we just added Hebrew to the list of languages that we support. You can immediately use it in Bing Translator, in IE8, with the messenger bot, inside Office and of course with the API. I would like to congratulate our language quality and coverage team on the progress they have been making with….
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Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing
Use Bing to instantly translate queries from one language to another with our translation Instant Answer! Starting today, when you are looking for a translation of a word or phrase, go to Bing.com and kick off an instant translation, powered by Microsoft Translator. Instant translation is another way that Bing helps you complete tasks faster by presenting better organized and….
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Any-to-Any Translations and Language Autodetect now available for Microsoft Translator
Today our team released some exciting updates for Microsoft Translator! It is now possible to translate from any of our languages to any other language. Spanish to Chinese? Arabic to German? Check 🙂 We have also added a Language Autodetect feature to our webpage translator. So if you’re on a page that’s in a language you don’t recognize, our translation….
Download the Microsoft Translator installer for Microsoft Office
Now you can translate your Microsoft Office documents with Microsoft Translator – right within Office! You can translate words, phrases, or even your entire document, through the Research task pane. We blogged about setting this up manually for Office 2007 or Office 2003 previously – now it’s really easy! This works for both Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007. The….
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Silk Road Power Trio: New API features, Microsoft Translator, PowerToys CodePlex Launch
Our friends over in Live Search featured Microsoft Translator in their MIX09 blog post – check it out!
Polish now available on MicrosoftTranslator.com
We are happy to announce the release of our English <-> Polish translation engine! Some of you have been asking us about Polish translation, and we’re excited to deliver for you! We’ve also made some quality improvements to our Spanish, French, German, and Italian engines – if you’ve tried these languages out in the past, give them another try and….
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New language pair on MicrosoftTranslator.com
The Translator team is excited to announce the availability of the English to Russian language pair on MicrosoftTranslator.com. This language pair is now available across all implementations of the translator technology, including Live Search and (in the next few days) the Windows Live Messenger TBot. You have probably noticed that the Russian to English language pair has been available for….
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Linking to a foreign language web page with Microsoft Translator
Have you ever wanted to link to a web page that is in a different language than your own site? (Update 01-2015) Translator Widget: For your own pages (http and https) The Microsoft Translator webpage widget allows you to deliver the page in multiple languages, without taking your users away from the site. Go here to get the code snippet….
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Have you seen the Bilingual Viewer?
Our web page translation includes a user interface we refer to as the Bilingual Viewer. It offers 4 types of bilingual views which users can choose depending on preference. The side-by-side and top/bottom views offer synchronized scrolling, highlighting, and navigation. In the two single language views, you can hover your mouse pointer over a sentence in one language and the….
