Microsoft Translator

Microsoft Translator is an open, web API that allows partners to integrate automatic (machine) translation into any application or service.

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The Translator API is used across many Microsoft products including: Office, Bing, Visual Studio, SharePoint, and Yammer. Various businesses across industries also use Translator to support internal and external use cases.

An enterprise grade product, Microsoft Translator will allow you and your customers to easily customize your translations to adapt to any particular industry jargon and to effectively and quickly scale from test scenarios to fully fledged, global deployment.


    Overview Overview

    Microsoft Translator is a cloud based, enterprise ready, automatic translation web API supporting 50 languages. Based on Wikipedia data, we estimate that by supporting these languages, your products or services could target a market covering over 95% of the world GDP. Translator can be used to build applications, websites, and tools, or any solution requiring multi-language support. It is customizable, scalable, and used across product, support and online communication teams. The service is available at no cost within several Microsoft products including: Office, SharePoint, Yammer, Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, Bing and Skype.

    Microsoft Translator is used across a wide variety of scenarios to meet your business needs.

    Microsoft Translator typical use cases

    Readiness

    Provide sales, marketing, technical, or human resources content and training in multiple languages to your organization to scale the internal reach of your readiness content.

    Learn more about how Translator can help scale your readiness efforts

    Customer support

    Integrate automatic translation in your pre-existing customer support workflows to cost-effectively extend your reach across borders and markets.

    Learn more about how to broaden your global customer support reach with Translator

    Web localization

    Localize your website by combining human and automatic translations based on content type and languages.

    Learn more about web localization using Translator

    Internal communications

    Foster global communication among employees by enabling multilingual information sharing over instant messaging, or on team or community sites.

    Learn more about how Translator can help foster internal communications globally

    Community and social

    Multiply the value of your user-generated content from customer forums, consumer reviews, or user groups with scalable, cost-effective, multi-language support.

    Learn more about multiplying your user generated content with Translator

    Implementation Implementation

    The Translator service translates a source text from one language to a different target language for the client or web app to use. You can integrate translation into web, desktop, or mobile applications. The Translator API provides a rich functionality set for any developer, including a wide choice of interfaces: AJAX, HTTP, SOAP, OData, and the Translator Web Widget.

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    Rates Rates

    To start using the Microsoft Translator API:

    • A subscription level of 2 million character per month is available at no cost.
    • A higher level subscription is available through Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

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    Microsoft Translator Partner Alliance Program Microsoft Translator Partner Alliance Program

    Translator Partner Alliance Program was created to enable Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program partners to increase their awareness and visibility for customers looking for Translator-enabled scenarios. The program has three levels of participation and includes benefits such as assigned Translator API service volume, participation in key marketing activities, and additional exposure on the Translator site.

    Learn more about the program benefits and requirements

    Frequently asked questions Frequently asked questions

    Will I have full functionality available with the trial tier?

    Yes, the only limit is that you won’t be able to translate more than 2 million characters per month (500-700 pages of text).

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    What is the difference between Microsoft Translator, Bing Translator, and Skype Translator?

    Microsoft Translator is the core API. Bing Translator is the end-user, web front-end of Microsoft Translator located at bing.com/translator. Skype Translator is a Skype product, integrating the Microsoft Translator API for instant messaging and speech translation. The same API also powers translations in Microsoft Office, Bing, Internet Explorer, SharePoint, Yammer, and Visual Studio.

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    What languages are supported with Microsoft Translator?

    Answer: Microsoft Translator supports 50 languages and new ones are regularly added by Microsoft or language preservation communities.

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