Neowin News Feed for: Translator

Pot Desktop 3.0.7

Razvan Serea — Sat, 10 May 2025 16:36:01 +0000

Pot Desktop streamlines translation tasks with its user-friendly interface and powerful features, making your workflow seamless and efficient. Read more...

Pot Desktop 2.7.0

Razvan Serea — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:12:01 +0000

Pot streamlines translation tasks with its user-friendly interface and powerful features, making your workflow seamless and efficient. Read more...

Pot Desktop 2.6.8

Razvan Serea — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 16:12:02 +0000

Pot streamlines translation tasks with its user-friendly interface and powerful features, making your workflow seamless and efficient. Read more...

Hands on with FluentTalk T1 Mini now available and on sale at 20% off

Steven Parker — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:00:01 +0000

We take a look at the FluentTalk T1 Mini handheld translator that includes 12 months of free data to download languages and assist it with translations. We took it for a whirl to see how it held up. Read more...

Review of the Timekettle Fluentalk T1 handheld translator device

Steven Parker — Sun, 14 May 2023 17:00:01 +0000

Timekettle sent us their Fluentalk T1 handheld translator that includes 24 months of free data to download languages and assist it with translations. We took it for a whirl to see how it held up. Read more...

Microsoft Translator adds 129th language and it's not available on Google Translate

Paul Hill — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:40:01 +0000

Microsoft Translator has just added support for its 129th language, Lower Sorbian. This West Slavic language is spoken in an eastern area of Germany and is endangered with fewer than 7,000 speakers. Read more...

Microsoft Translator adds support for 13 African languages, bringing its total to 124

John Callaham — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:38:02 +0000

The addition of 13 African languages for Microsoft Translator means that the service can now help an additional 335 million people to translate and communicate with others around the world. Read more...

Azure Translator can now scan and translate PDF documents

Paul Hill — Wed, 25 May 2022 22:00:01 +0000

Microsoft says that its Azure Translator service can scan PDF files and translate them without them being preprocessed by OCR software. The new feature won't cost customers any more money. Read more...

Microsoft Translator adds support for nine additional languages

Jay Bonggolto — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 04:54:01 +0000

Microsoft Translator has gained support for nine more languages, expanding the availability of the service's text translation capability in conjunction with the International Mother Language Day. Read more...

Immersive Reader for Azure Cognitive Services is now generally available

Hamza Jawad — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:02:02 +0000

The Azure Cognitive Service which has been in preview since last year has finally become generally available, bringing additional features such as an updated SDK and new translator languages as well. Read more...

Save 40% off the ONE Mini Pocket Multilingual Assistant

News Staff — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 16:46:01 +0000

With today's highlighted deal, you can record, translate & transcribe foreign language audio files to text with this multilingual assistant while saving a chunk off the retail price via Neowin Deals! Read more...

Microsoft's 2019 Holiday Ad translates reindeer for a little girl

Rich Woods — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:46:02 +0000

Microsoft published its 2019 holiday advertisement video. This one shows off a little girl watching her mother use Translator to speak to someone in Japanese, and then using it for reindeer. Read more...

[MWC 2019] Pocketalk is a cool voice translator for travelers

João Carrasqueira — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:16:02 +0000

Most people already have a translator in their pocket thanks to their smartphones, but Sourcenext believes there's a market for dedicated voice translators. Here's our look at the Pocketalk. Read more...

October update for Office 365 brings AI-powered translator to Word

Shreyas Gandhe — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:10:02 +0000

Microsoft has revealed the list of enhancements that were rolled out for Office 365 as part of the October update, which includes the improved translation engine for Word and launch of new tools. Read more...

Microsoft Translator adds Japanese as a supported speech translation language

Timi Cantisano — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 05:02:01 +0000

Microsoft has added a new language that will support its speech translation service. Japanese will become the tenth language joining Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, amongst others. Read more...

Microsoft Translator adds Bangla as a supported language

Rich Woods — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 20:06:01 +0000

Microsoft today added support for Bangla to its Translator service. It can be used to instantly translate messages in Skype, and is integrated into products like Cortana, Edge, and more. Read more...

Microsoft to shut down Translator app for older Windows and Windows Phone devices next month

Andy Weir — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:20:01 +0000

Microsoft's Translator app on older versions of Windows and Windows Phone will no longer work from next month, while some users will have to download "new versions" to continue using the app. Read more...

Microsoft updates Translator app on Android with improved performance and various fixes

Andy Weir — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 06:58:01 +0000

Microsoft's latest update to its Translator app is now available for Android devices, bringing faster start-up times, fixes for disconnection issues in Conversation Mode, and other improvements. Read more...

Six new Austronesian languages now available in Microsoft Translator

Boyd Chan — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:24:01 +0000

Microsoft has been hard at work adding six new languages to Microsoft Translator, which the company says will unlock communication opportunities for 119 million Austronesian speakers around the world. Read more...

Skype Translator adds support for Russian spoken language

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:42:01 +0000

Skype's universal translator just got a bit more inclusive as of today, when it added support for voice translations to and from Russian. That brings the number of supported spoken languages up to 9. Read more...

The 'Pilot' is a Star Trek-like universal translator coming to market

Matthew Sims — Wed, 18 May 2016 07:38:01 +0000

Struggling to communicate with your foreign friends? A US company could have just provided the answer with the Pilot, an earpiece and app which translates spoken languages in real time. Read more...

Cortana on Windows 10 can now instantly translate from French, German, Italian and Spanish

Andy Weir — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:44:01 +0000

Microsoft's increasingly capable digital assistant can now instantly translate spoken or typed phrases from French, German, Italian and Spanish into dozens of other languages on Windows 10 devices. Read more...

Microsoft's Skype Translator adds Arabic as its latest spoken language

Andy Weir — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:20:01 +0000

Arabic - one of the world's most widely used languages - is now available on Skype Translator, adding to Microsoft's existing support for seven other spoken languages, and over 50 written ones. Read more...

Microsoft Translator adds real-time conversations to mobile apps and wearables

John Devon — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:38:01 +0000

With Microsoft's updated Translator app, you can speak into your wearable while your partner reads the translation on your phone seconds later. No more handing your phone back and forth. Read more...

Skype Translator celebrates its first birthday with new Brazilian Portuguese support

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:14:01 +0000

Skype Translator, the near real-time voice translation tool from Microsoft, is turning one next week. And to celebrate it's adding support for a seventh spoken language: Brazilian Portuguese. Read more...

Microsoft is baking Skype Translator into the desktop app, now available to everyone

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:06:01 +0000

Microsoft's Skype Translator is a rather interesting technology, allowing for instant translation between up to six languages during calls. The feature is now universally available. Read more...

Microsoft launches 'Translator 10 Beta' for Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile

Timi Cantisano — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:20:01 +0000

Microsoft has launched its 'Translator 10 Beta' that will allow users to translate languages on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. The app supports translations without the need for a data connection. Read more...

Omelette du fromage: Skype Translator now supports French and German

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:44:01 +0000

The Skype Translator app has just become more useful as it now supports near real-time spoken translations in French and German, bringing the total number of supported spoken languages up to six. Read more...

Microsoft's Skype Translator is available for everyone to try right now

Andy Weir — Tue, 12 May 2015 14:26:01 +0000

The preview of Skype Translator - which lets you speak to someone in one language while they read a near-real-time translation in another - is now available for anyone who wants to give it a go. Read more...

Skype Translator learns to speak Italian and Mandarin

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:46:01 +0000

Skype's real-time translator tool now supports additional languages. The voice translator can now handle Italian and Mandarin on top of the already supported English and Spanish. Read more...

Microsoft announces technology partnership with State Department Diplomacy Center

Jett Goldsmith — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:20:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced a $1 million partnership with the State Department's upcoming U.S. Diplomacy Center museum, which will combine Microsoft technology and hardware in a very unique way. Read more...

Google apologizes for homophobic slurs in its translator

Andy Weir — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:46:01 +0000

Google has apologized after tens of thousands of users signed a petition complaining that the company's translator software was spitting out offensive and inappropriate terms to describe gay people. Read more...

Twitter adopts Microsoft's Bing to translate tweets

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:06:01 +0000

After experimenting for a long time, Twitter has finally decided to fully adopt Microsoft's Bing translation engine and allow users to translate tweets that are in different languages. Read more...

Translator app for Windows Phone adds several new languages

Chris Schroeder — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 21:24:01 +0000

Microsoft has pushed a pretty significant update to its Windows Phone application, known as Translator, to include multiple new spoken languages to which the app can translate for you. Read more...

Watch George Takei try out Microsoft's Skype Translator

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:18:01 +0000

Famous actor and passionate technology fan George Takei, recently visited Microsoft in Seattle and got to try out Skype's upcoming real-time Translator as well as see a few other company projects. Read more...

7 Days: A week of Office updates, Surface rage, ultra-thin Droids, and Microsoft's penguin pal

Andy Weir — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:40:01 +0000

From big Office changes and Xbox updates, to more bendy iPhones, Lollipop updates, cool concepts, creepy websites and Spanish Cortana, we look back at highlights from this week's top tech news. Read more...

Sign-up to try Skype's real-time Translator

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 08:58:01 +0000

After being unveiled at the beginning of the year Skype Translator is now almost ready for public preview. Sign-up to try its real-time voice and video translation capabilities. Read more...

Lingoes 2.9.2

Razvan Serea — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:13:48 +0000

Dictionary and multi-language translation software providing results in over 80 languages. It offers full text translation, capture word on screen, translate selected text and pronouncing text, and Read more...

Microsoft updates Bing Translator app for Windows 8 to include speech input

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:20:38 +0000

Microsoft's Bing Translator app for Windows 8 now includes speech support, allowing users to speak to their devices and hear a direct translation in "a native speaker's accent." Read more...

Facebook rolls out translator powered by Bing

Paul Ferson — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:17:28 +0000

Facebook is beginning to roll out an inline translator powered by Bing, helping to remove the Facebook community's language barrier and allowing users to contribute their own translations. Read more...