Year: 2017
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 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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Translate all your email, on any device, with the new Translator add-in for Outlook
The new Translator for Outlook add-in goes together like chips and dip! It allows users to easily, quickly and securely translate emails from any of the 60+ supported Microsoft Translator languages straight from your favorite email tool: Outlook. Whether you’re on Outlook in Windows, iOS or on the web (Android to come soon! Stay tuned!), and for both your professional Office….
Communications Startup, Layer, Uses the Translator Text API to Connect World Leaders
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, the messaging startup Layer provided tools as part of the Forum’s app to allow world leaders to communicate across the language barrier. The app allowed 3,000 leaders from 100 different countries to send messages in their own native language — and the receiver to instantly translate it into his or….
