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The new functionality, announced June 27 during the Build 2013 (opens in new tab) developers conference being held in San Francisco, enables instant translation of tweets in a different language from that of the user.
The translation technology is based on extensive machine-learning advancements from Microsoft Research (opens in new tab).
Build 2013 gives software developers an opportunity to learn how to create great customer experiences on Windows (opens in new tab) platforms by using such technologies in their own applications. By doing so, they can create quality experiences for users, whether they are using Windows, Windows Phone, Office (opens in new tab), Bing (opens in new tab), Yammer, Lync (opens in new tab), and other products and services.
“The integration of machine-translation technology from Microsoft Research has the ability to broaden any application’s impact through a substantial increase in accessibility to real-time communications and information sharing,” says Peter Lee (opens in new tab), Microsoft corporate vice president and head of Microsoft Research USA. “No longer is language a barrier to real-time instant connections around the world.”
For more, see the full post from the Microsoft Translator team here (opens in new tab).