Author: Microsoft Translator
Discover How to Build a Windows Phone 8 App with Microsoft Translator and Speech Synthesis
Windows Phone 8 introduces a host of new features, including speech synthesis. This is the perfect fit for Microsoft Translator and opens up exciting opportunities for developers as showcased in our November 12 blog post. In the latest in our series of walkthroughs, we step you through everything you need to do to build a simple translation app that takes your text….
Creating a Web Application with Translation provided by Microsoft Translator.
Creating a Web Application with Translation provided by Microsoft Translator. In this Walkthrough, you’ll learn how to create a Web application that uses the Microsoft Translator API to translate text that was input by the user. You’ll build the page using ASP.NET and the free Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. If you already have a Visual Studio installation, you’ll….
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Building Windows 8 Store Apps Using Microsoft Translator
The Microsoft Translator API is a hosted API that allows you to add machine translation to your app. It fully supports Windows Store Apps, so if you want to add localization to these apps, doing so is as easy as subscribing to and using the API. We’ve built out step-by-step instructions and assets that demonstrates how to do this this,….
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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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