{"id":327,"date":"2013-06-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/inside_microsoft_research\/2013\/06\/27\/bringing-translations-to-tweets\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T07:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:31:31","slug":"bringing-translations-to-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/bringing-translations-to-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Translations to Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"share-icons-top-of-post\">\n<ul class=\"post-social\"><!--          FACEBOOK LIKE   CODE           --><\/p>\n<li class=\"post-facebook\"><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden; width: 110px; height: 21px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.technet.com%2Fb%2Finside_microsoft_research%2Farchive%2F2013%2F06%2F27%2Fbringing-translations-to-tweets.aspx&send=false&layout=button_count&width=110&show_faces=true&font=segoe+ui&colorscheme=light&action=like&height=21\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/li>\n<p><!--          TWITTER SHARING CODE           --><\/p>\n<li class=\"post-twitter\"><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/share\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-via=\"msftresearch\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/prod.evol.blogs.technet.com\/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles\/00\/00\/00\/90\/35\/js\/6811.tweet-this.js\" original-url=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/cfs-file.ashx\/__key\/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles\/00-00-00-90-35-js\/6811.tweet_2D00_this.js\"><\/script>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--    END SOCIAL SHARING CONTENT    --> <!-- ENTER AUTHOR AND BLOG CONTENT BELOW --><\/p>\n<p class=\"posted-by\">Posted by <span class=\"author\">Rob Knies<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"posted-by\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/prod.evol.blogs.technet.com\/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles\/00\/00\/00\/90\/35\/8662.translator.jpg\" original-url=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/cfs-file.ashx\/__key\/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles\/00-00-00-90-35\/8662.translator.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 0px currentColor; float: left;\" title=\"Translator logo\" src=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/prod.evol.blogs.technet.com\/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles\/00\/00\/00\/90\/35\/8662.translator.jpg\" original-url=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/resized-image.ashx\/__size\/550x0\/__key\/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles\/00-00-00-90-35\/8662.translator.jpg\" alt=\"Translator logo\" width=\"150\" \/><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"posted-by\"><span class=\"author\">There&rsquo;s some cool news over at the Microsoft Translator\/Bing Translator team blog: The announcement of new translation features, powered by <a title=\"Microsoft Translator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Translator<\/a>, that now appear in the Twitter app for <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Windows Phone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/en-US\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Phone<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new functionality, announced June 27 during the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Build 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buildwindows.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Build 2013<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> developers conference being held in San Francisco, enables instant translation of tweets in a different language from that of the user.<\/p>\n<p>The translation technology is based on extensive machine-learning advancements from <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Microsoft Research\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Research<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Build 2013 gives software developers an opportunity to learn how to create great customer experiences on <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Windows<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> 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, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Office\" href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Office<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Bing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bing<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Yammer, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lync\" href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-lync-video-conferencing-and-instant-messaging-FX102004552.aspx\">Lync<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, and other products and services.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The integration of machine-translation technology from Microsoft Research has the ability to broaden any application&rsquo;s impact through a substantial increase in accessibility to real-time communications and information sharing,&rdquo; says <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Peter Lee\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/people\/petelee\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Lee<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft corporate vice president and head of Microsoft Research USA. &ldquo;No longer is language a barrier to real-time instant connections around the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more, see the full post from the Microsoft Translator team <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/translation\/archive\/2013\/06\/27\/from-tweet-to-translate-microsoft-s-translation-service-powers-new-translation-feature-in-twitter-for-windows-phone.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Posted by Rob Knies There&rsquo;s some cool news over at the Microsoft Translator\/Bing Translator team blog: The announcement of new translation features, powered by Microsoft Translator, that now appear in the Twitter app for Windows Phone. The new functionality, announced June 27 during the Build 2013 developers conference being held in San Francisco, enables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr-author-ordering":[],"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[200475,186604,200699,200785,195326,202497,186418,202781,193532,203115,196808,193531,194370,187221,187362,204721],"research-area":[],"msr-region":[],"msr-event-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-promo-type":[],"msr-podcast-series":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-blog","tag-app","tag-bing","tag-bing-translator","tag-build-2013","tag-developer","tag-lync","tag-machine-learning","tag-microsoft-research-usa","tag-microsoft-translator","tag-office","tag-peter-lee","tag-translation","tag-twitter","tag-windows","tag-windows-phone","tag-yammer","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_event_details":{"start":"","end":"","location":""},"podcast_url":"","podcast_episode":"","msr_research_lab":[],"msr_impact_theme":[],"related-publications":[],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-academic-programs":[],"related-groups":[],"related-projects":[],"related-events":[],"related-researchers":[],"msr_type":"Post","byline":"","formattedDate":"June 27, 2013","formattedExcerpt":"Tweet Posted by Rob Knies There&rsquo;s some cool news over at the Microsoft Translator\/Bing Translator team blog: The announcement of new translation features, powered by Microsoft Translator, that now appear in the Twitter app for Windows Phone.The new functionality, announced June 27 during the Build&hellip;","locale":{"slug":"en_us","name":"English","native":"","english":"English"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261516,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/261516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"msr-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-region?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"msr-event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event-type?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"msr-promo-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-promo-type?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"msr-podcast-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-podcast-series?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}