Windows Live Translator

Infobox Software
name = Windows Live Translator



caption = Windows Live Translator translating between English and Chinese Traditional with computer-related content translation enabled
developer = Microsoft
latest_release_version = Final
latest_release_date = 2008
latest_preview_version =
latest_preview_date =
operating_system =
genre = Language translation
license =
website = [http://translator.live.com http://translator.live.com]

Windows Live Translator is a service provided by Microsoft as part of its Windows Live services which allow users to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages. All translation pairs (including 11 English to other languages and 12 other languages to English) are powered by Microsoft Translation (previously Systran), developed by Microsoft Research, as its backend translation software. Two transliteration pairs (between Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified) are provided by Microsoft's Windows International team. [ [http://blogs.msdn.com/translation/archive/2008/09/08/translation-powered-by-microsoft-translator.aspx Windows Live Translator Team Blog: Translation powered by....Microsoft Translator!] ] Computer-related texts are translated by Microsoft's own syntax-based statistical machine translation technology.

Features

In addition to standard text and web page translation, Windows Live Translator includes several additional features:
*Some languages will offer users the option of producing a translation that is optimized for computer-related text
*When translating an entire web page, or when the user selects "Translate this page" in Live Search results, the Bilingual Viewer will be shown which allows users to browse the original web page text and translation in parallel, supported by synchronized highlights, scrolling, and navigation
*Four Bilingual Viewer layouts are available:
**Side by side
**Top and bottom
**Original with hover translation
**Translation with hover original
*Add-in for website owners to add a drop-down menu to their website for translating it into another language supported by Windows Live Translator

Language options

Current available translation options provided by Windows Live Translator include:
*English to German
*English to French
*English to Spanish
*English to Italian
*English to Japanese
*English to Chinese Simplified
*English to Chinese Traditional
*German to English
*French to English
*Spanish to English
*Italian to English
*Japanese to English
*Portuguese to English
*Chinese Simplified to English
*Chinese Traditional to English
*English to Korean
*Korean to English
*Russian to English
*English to Dutch
*Dutch to English
*English to Arabic
*Arabic to English
*French to German
*English to Portuguese
*German to French

References

ee also

*Comparison of Machine translation applications
*Windows Live
*Live Search
*Google Translate
*Babel Fish (website)
*Asia Online

External links

* [http://translator.live.com Windows Live Translator]
* [http://translator.live.com/AddIn.aspx Windows Live Translator - Web page Translator Add-In]
* [http://blogs.msdn.com/translation/default.aspx Official team blog]