

The first version of Microsoft's machine translation system was developed between 19 within Microsoft Research. It also supports several speech translation systems that currently power the Microsoft Translator live conversation feature, Skype Translator, and Skype for Windows Desktop, and the Microsoft Translator Apps for iOS and Android. The service supports text translation between many languages and language varieties. Speech translation via Microsoft Speech services is offered based on time of the audio stream. Service for text translation via the Translator Text API ranges from a free tier supporting two million characters per month to paid tiers supporting billions of characters per month. Microsoft Translator also offers text and speech translation through cloud services for businesses. Microsoft Translator is a part of Microsoft Cognitive Services and integrated across multiple consumer, developer, and enterprise products including Bing, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Lync, Yammer, Skype Translator, Visual Studio, and Microsoft Translator apps for Windows, Windows Phone, iPhone and Apple Watch, and Android phone and Android Wear. If you are using the latest Windows 10 desktop app version of Skype, you'll see it slightly differently as highlighted in this screenshot.Microsoft Translator is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Microsoft. Languages under the phone icon have live voice translation and language under the IM only icon have instant message translation available. In the Skype desktop client (not the Wndows 10 app version) in a chat, you'll see a globe icon in the top right area- click on this and the translator options will open- you can select your language and the other person's language. Watch How to turn on Skype Translator in the desktop Skype client: Just make sure you have the latest version of Skype downloaded. IM messages can also be translated in over 50 languages.Ĭurrently available on Windows devices only for one-to-one chats.

Currently live voice translation is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Skype translator allows you to connect over Skype and chat via a video call with live translation. Speak live with students & teachers in their own language!
