14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has recently pushed its machine translation technology one step further in its evolution. Microsoft Translator, which was rebranded Bing Translator when Live Search was killed off for the sake of Bing earlier this year, now supports an increased number of languages. The software giant has in fact bumped the number of languages that the Bing Translator supports up to two dozen. Just the past week alone, Microsoft introduced no less than five new languages for Bing Translator users. However, despite the upgrade, Bing Translator still lags behind rival Google Translate in regard to language support.
“In my last update I had asked about what languages you wanted Microsoft Translator service to support. Thank you for taking the time to respond. We are pleased to announce that last week we added Czech (CSY), Danish (DAN), Greek (ELL), Swedish (SVE) and Thai (THA), taking our language count to a nice round 20,” revealed Vikram Dendi, from Microsoft Translator.
According to Microsoft, these are the languages supported after the last update to the machine translations service: ARA – Arabic, CHS - Chinese Simplified, CHT - Chinese Traditional, NLD – Dutch, ENU – English, FRA – French, DEU – German, HEB – Hebrew, ITA – Italian, JPN – Japanese, KOR – Korean, PLK – Polish, PTB – Portuguese, RUS – Russian, ESN – Spanish, CSY – Czech, DAN – Danish, ELL – Greek, SVE – Swedish, and THA – Thai. At the same time, the upgrade is not limited to Bing Translator, but can be leveraged in additional applications connected with the service.
“You will be able to translate between these languages in all Microsoft Translator powered services including Bing Translator, Internet Explorer Accelerator, Office, Widget as well as in our APIs. Feel free to send in your feedback on the new languages via the forum. We do keenly follow your recommendations and requests as we prioritize new languages – so please do keep them coming in the comments section,” Dendi added.