Microsoft Translator adds new customization features for use in company translations

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Published onJanuary 27, 2016

published onJanuary 27, 2016

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Microsoft’s Translator serviceexpanded significantly during the last year, adding new languages, integration into Cortana and cross-platform availability. But today, as Microsoftexplains in a blog post,companies can now use the technology of its Microsoft Translator Hub to create brand new language systems.

Back in 2012, the Microsoft Translator Hub was launched by Microsoft to help enterprises with their unique translation needs. In fact, because companies can’t rely on default translation tools provided by Google or Bing, they often have to build their own customized translation tools.

But Microsoft wants to change that. Until now the Translator Hub allowed enterprises to “create as many custom systems as needed by combining Microsoft’s enormous translation corpus with their own previously translated documents, such as internal or external websites, brochures, white papers, etc”.

But it wasn’t good enough for Microsoft, and the company is detailing 5 new different levels of customization available to Microsoft Translator API users, each one corresponding to an increasing translation quality.

Here is what this new dichotomy means:

Once enterprises have created these brand new language systems, they will be able to use them with all category ID-enabled Microsoft Translator products, and among them Microsoft is listing “the on premise version of SharePoint, the Translator Web Widget, Office apps for PowerPoint and Word, the Document Translator, and the Multilingual App Toolkit, and many translation memory tools from our partners”.

Companies interested in trying Microsoft Translator can already register a free 2 million character per month subscription. It’s interesting to see Microsoft releasing more and more of its artificial intelligence tools to everyone, asit recently did with its CNTK toolkit for machine learning tasks. We can’t wait to see how companies will make use of all these computing powers!

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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