How to Get the Most Out of Your Translation Workflows in 2015
Like any project management workflow, managing your organization’s translation and localization is a constant balancing act between speed, quality and price. In a recent webinar, “Translation Trends 2015” hosted by MemSource, Microsoft Translator’s Group Program Manager Chris Wendt showed how improvements in collaboration technology for translation could help raise the bar for all three of these elements. The primary choice….
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WorldWideScience.org Provides Multi-Language Access to the World’s Scientific Research
How do you make libraries of billions of pages of scientific research, published in multiple languages, accessible to people around the globe? This was the problem faced by the WorldWideScience Alliance, a multinational partnership whose mission is to eliminate barriers in finding and sharing research across national boundaries. To solve this problem, WorldWideScience reached out to Deep Web Technologies which….
Translator Solutions in Action: Microsoft Services Global Delivery
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be showcasing how various teams around Microsoft have been able to use Translator to improve their internal and external operations in areas such as readiness, communications, customer support, forums and user groups, and web localization. Translator has proved to be a valuable tool for many teams across Microsoft, and we’re happy to be able….
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Translator Solutions in Action: Bing
Team: Bing Solution: Customer Support, Website Localization The Bing search engine offers its services around the globe, with millions of requests entered in languages other than English. In order to improve foreign language search results, the Whole Page Relevance team at Bing needed a way to translate millions of phrases from more than 10 graphic device interface languages into….
Microsoft Translator Introduces Yucatec Maya and Querétaro Otomi for UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day
In our ongoing effort to empower language communities to preserve their languages and cultures, we are excited to introduce Yucatec Maya and Querétaro Otomi to Microsoft Translator’s ever-growing list of supported languages. These language systems were developed in collaboration with community partners in Mexico, who created the automatic translations systems to permanently bridge the translation gap between these endangered languages….
Simplicity is Possible in a Multi-Lingual, Omni Channel Support World
The following is a guest post by the Microsoft Translator Partner, Lionbridge Technologies, who developed GeoFluent as a solution to address the challenge of real-time translation of user generated content leveraging the Microsoft Translator automatic translation service and customization capabilities of the Translator Hub. Let’s face it: customers appreciate simplicity. Nothing saves an angry customer from becoming an ex-customer like….
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Translator Solutions in Action: Internet Explorer
Team: Internet Explorer Solution: Customer Support The Internet Explorer (IE) team at Microsoft uses the Microsoft Translator API to translate non-English customer reports from around the world, allowing them to resolve customer issues faster and more effectively. The API has also improved IE’s ability to triage customer comments and conduct data mining on text that is not written in….
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Microsoft Translator Now Supports 50 Languages with the Additions of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Zagreb, Croatia Belgrade, Serbia We are happy to announce that have added three new languages– Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian to our list of supported languages. This brings the total number of languages supported by Microsoft Translator to 50! Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian are welcome additions to the list of Microsoft Translator’s supported languages. Although similar….
Translator Solutions in Action: My Reading Level
Team: My Reading Level Solution: Translation Services Microsoft Foundry Cambridge, an internal development team within Microsoft, developed the My Reading Level app for Windows 8.1 which provides non-native English speakers with a personalized newsfeed to help them improve their English skills and vocabulary. Using the Microsoft Translator API, the app allows English learners to define and translate English text….
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Skype Translator Preview Releasing Support for Two New Languages and Updated Client Application
Today, we are releasing updates to Skype Translator Preview including two new languages, Chinese and Italian. The updated app also has new features to help make speech to speech translation even easier such as continuous speech recognition and automatic volume control. Here is a full list of updates to the new and improved Skype Translator Preview: Two new languages: Chinese….
