Microsoft Translator is a multilingual cloud based translation service provided by Microsoft.Microsoft integrates the Translator API across multiple consumer, developer, and enterprise products, including Microsoft Office, Bing, Microsoft Lync, SharePoint, Skype Translator, Internet Explorer, as well as Microsoft Translator apps for Windows, iPhone, Windows Phone, Apple Watch, Android phone, and Android Wear.
The cloud API is available as free tier service supporting two million characters per month and also as paid tier service supporting billions of characters per month. As of December 2015, this service supports 52 language systems. It also supports speech to speech conversation translation service in 7 languages in Skype Translator and the Microsoft Translator Apps for Android and iOS and Skype for Windows Desktop.
Microsoft Translator API service supports multiple languages that reach out to almost 95% of world’s gross domestic population (GDP). It provides a customizable and scalable solution for automatic translation. It offers a rich functionality set for developers and also a wide choice of interfaces like – HTTP, AJAX, OData and Translator Web Widget.
Various organizations across the globe use this service as part of their existing workflows. Facebook, Etsy, eBay are some of the companies that use Microsoft Translator for their consumer-facing applications and services offering translations.
The recently released translator had a significant advantage in its Android Wear support but lacked some features like camera view, offline functionality, and live conversation mode. But Microsoft Translator 1.2 has overcome these hurdles and added natural conversation support in its app.
Whats new in MS 1.2
- With Translator 1.2 you can have natural conversation in Chinese, French, Italian, English, Spanish and German. Soon, more languages will join the platform.
- You can use your smart watch and phone altogether to enable conversations without huddling around a single phone.
- The system will save live conversations in your history and geo-tag them so that you can check what you were told during the chat.
At Krify, our experienced team of developers are geared up to use the latest Microsoft translator APIs. Feel free to contact us with your requirements in building applications, tools, websites or any other solutions that requires Multilanguage support.
