Microsoft Translator publicly releases speech translation corpus
Christian Federmann, senior program manager As part of an ongoing effort within Microsoft to improve the accuracy of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, Microsoft Translator is publicly releasing a set of data that includes multiple conversations between bilingual speakers who are speaking French, German and English. This corpus, which was produced by Microsoft using bilingual speakers, aims to create a standard….
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Korean Becomes Microsoft Translator’s 11th Neural Network Translation Language
Last year Microsoft announced the release of its Neural Network based translation system for 10 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Today, Korean is being added to the list. Neural Network translation uses the full context of a sentence to translate words based not only on a few words before and after it,….
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Microsoft announces Bangla, the latest language supported by Microsoft Translator
With this new text translation language available, locals and travelers can communicate from and to Bangla throughout Bangladesh, the Indian subcontinent and around the globe by using the Microsoft Translator apps on their preferred device (Windows, Android, Kindle, or iOS). Businesses can also easily integrate the Translator text API in their business processes such as customer support, web localization, training….
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Translator for Outlook add-in now available for MAC
In February, the Office Global Service & Experiences (GSX) team released the Translator for Outlook add-in, showcasing the launch of Outlook Mobile add-ins. While this was developed, and released outside the normal feature process, given the enthusiastic response from early users, the team wanted to share the announcement more broadly to the Outlook for Windows, Mac, and web audiences, and….
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Japanese becomes the 10th speech translation language supported by Microsoft Translator
Today, Microsoft Translator announces the availability of its 10th speech translation language: Japanese. This new language is now available across all Microsoft Translator supported technologies and products along with the already released nine other speech translation languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Microsoft Translator is the first end-to-end speech translation solution optimized for real-life conversations….
Reminder: Move Translator API subscriptions from DataMarket to Azure before April 30, 2017
Please move your DataMarket Microsoft Translator API subscriptions and CTF translations to the Azure portal before April 30, 2017, to avoid service disruption. Service access to Microsoft Translator in DataMarket ends on April 30, 2017. To avoid service disruption, Microsoft Translator, part of the Microsoft Cognitive Services collection of APIs, is now available in the Azure portal. Below is a summary….
Microsoft Translator Apps Switch all Chinese and Japanese Language translations to Neural Network Technology
Today, Microsoft Translator announces that all translations between Chinese, English, and Japanese in the Microsoft Translator apps (Windows, iOS, Android, and Kindle) and on www.bing.com/translator are now exclusively using neural network (NN) translation technology. It applies to the following text translations: English <-> Chinese Simplified, Traditional, and Cantonese English <-> Japanese Chinese (all) <-> Japanese In addition to this….
Microsoft Translator helps eBay’s global customers buy and sell products in 20+ languages
As eBay expanded into more than 190 global markets, they needed to find a way for buyers and sellers to interact in this global, multi-lingual marketplace. eBay chose to implement the Microsoft Translator API, along with the Translator Hub, to create customized translations for their unique retail business. This customized machine translation opened up markets for buyers and sellers to….
Marlee Matlin Tests the Microsoft Translator Live Feature for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
Actress Marlee Matlin – known for her Oscar-winning performance in Children of a Lesser God and recurring roles on The West Wing, among other performances – visited the Microsoft AI and Research offices in November 2016 to discuss how the Microsoft Translator live feature could assist those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing in situations where a sign language interpreter isn’t….
Presentation Translator, a Microsoft Garage project, Demonstrated at Build Conference
At Microsoft Build 2017 today, Harry Shum, Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s AI and Research Group, demonstrated Presentation Translator, a Microsoft Garage project. Presentation Translator is an add-in for PowerPoint that translates and subtitles live presentations. As a presenter speaks, the add-in displays subtitles directly on a PowerPoint presentation in any one of more than 60 supported text languages.….
