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Introducing Inuinnaqtun and Romanized Inuktitut!

Today Microsoft Translator adds Inuinnaqtun and Romanized Inuktitut text translation to its growing list of languages. You can now translate between Inuinnaqtun or Romanized Inuktitut and any of over 100 supported languages and dialects in the Microsoft Translator apps, Office, and Translator for Bing. Using Azure Cognitive Services Translator you can add Inuinnaqtun and Romanized Inuktitut text and document translation….

Updated Custom Translator Portal in Public Preview

Today, we’re excited to announce that we have launched the new Custom Translator portal to public preview. The new version of the Custom Translator portal offers a more intuitive experience so that you can create custom translation models more easily and efficiently. Along with the new portal, we’ve also fine-tuned the Custom Translator V2 customization training pipeline based on feedback….

Microsoft Translator’s highlights of 2021

Throughout 2021 Translator brought new innovations to help people communicate regardless of the language they speak. Here are some of the highlights. Introducing Document Translation Containers available in gated preview Translator now supports more than 100 languages and dialects! Award winning research – Multilingual translation at scale Group Transcribe, a Microsoft Garage project Permanent conversation codes in the Translator web….

Multilingual translation at scale: 10000 language pairs and beyond

Microsoft is on a quest for AI at Scale with high ambition to enable the next generation of AI experiences. The Microsoft Translator ZCode team is working together with Microsoft Project Turing and Microsoft Research Asia to advance language and multilingual support at the core of this initiative. We continue to push frontiers with Multilingual models to support various language….

Translator now translates more than 100 languages

Today, we added 12 new languages and dialects to the Microsoft Translator service– Bashkir, Dhivehi, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Mongolian (Traditional), Tatar, Tibetan, Turkmen, Uyghur, and Uzbek (Latin)—bringing the total number of languages available in Translator to 103. You can read more about this news in the Microsoft AI announcement blog, the Microsoft Research blog, and the Azure Tech….

Microsoft Translator releases literary Chinese translation

When reading ancient Chinese poetry, we often marvel at the very wonderful words ancient writers could use to describe people, events, objects, and scenes. This is a splendid cultural treasure that has been left behind for us. However, similar to Shakespeare’s verses in the English language, the literary Chinese used by these poets is often difficult for modern day people to understand, and the meanings….

New Speech Regions and Updated Language Picker in the Translator App

Today we are adding regional accents to the Microsoft Translator app on iOS and Android. Known as Speech Regions, you can now select the accent of text-to-speech audio output you would like to hear while using the app. For instance, if you wanted to hear a translation into English you would be able to select American, British, Australian, or other….

Access your conversations with a permanent conversation code using Microsoft Translator

Today, we’ve updated the Translator conversations feature on the web (translate.it). With the new version of conversations on the web, you can now create a preset conversation code that can be reused for your subsequent conversations. You can then invite anyone to join the conversation from their own phone, tablet, or laptop. Preset conversations are designed for educators, presenters, or….

Translate full documents with Document Translation ― Now in General Availability

Today, the Document Translation feature of Translator is in general availability. Document Translation was launched in public preview back in February of this year and is now generally available. This new Translator service translates entire documents, or batches of documents, in a variety of file formats preserving their original structure and format. Document Translation was specifically designed to translate large….

Translator Service Now Available in Containers

Today at Microsoft’s annual Build conference we’re announcing that the Translator service on Azure is now available in containers as gated preview. Containers enable you to run some features of the Translator service in your own environment. Containers are ideal for organizations with limited Internet connectivity, or for organizations with specific security and data governance requirements that prevent them from….