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  Tbot is retired

  Chris WendtMicrosoft EmployeeThursday, January 31, 2013 11:07 PM

  As announced here,Messenger and Skype are coming together. Unfortunately, Tbot is not compatible
  with Skype, and will stopped working on March 5, 2013.

  We will post any news about translation options in Skype in our Forum here and Blog when we have it. For more
  questions about Messenger and Skype, please visit Messenger/Skype community forums.

  Thank you for having been a friend of Tbot!
  Your Microsoft Translator Team

  
  
  
  
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  Getting Started with Microsoft Translator

  Monday, March 23, 2009 9:40 PM

  Microsoft Translator developer offerings provide developers a wide spectrum of translation and language APIs for integration into their applications and services.

  AJAX Interface The AJAX interface provides your web applications with JavaScript based access to translation services. SOAP Interface The SOAP interface provides a strongly typed, web service standards based programming model supporting rich development environments such as the .NET framework. HTTP Interface The HTTP interface provides a high degree of interoperability for any network enabled application and supports a broad range of development environments. MSDN reference for Microsoft Translator APIs Comprehensive reference for Microsoft Translator APIs on MSDN.

  Sign up for the Microsoft Translator API Windows Azure Marketplace gives you a convenient way to sign up for the Microsoft Translator API. The set of offers includes an option for FREE use of the API. You can try out the functionality of the Translator API without having to write any code, right there on the Windows Azure Marketplace. News, Feedback & Support Microsoft Translator Blog Microsoft Translator Developer Forum

  
  
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  Go here for the User forum (Including Bing Translator)

  Saturday, October 10, 2009 1:53 AM
  For comments, concerns and questions about the various end user focused offerings powered by Microsoft Translator, please visit the user forum.
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  Known Issues and possible workarounds affecting the widget

  Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:48 PM

  Here is are some of the known issues (and any possible workarounds) that we are working to fix in future releases.  Please keep checking here for the latest list. 
  

  1. Changing target language after translation without refreshing may leave some paragraphs un-translated (Widget)
  2. Smaller size paragraphs may appear un-translated if they contains some sequence of nested tags (Widget & AJAX API)
  3. The translation toolbar does not display what Detect method is returning. For example if we call Microsoft.Translator.translate without specifying the source language code, the API still returns correctly because our Language Auto-Detect code kicks in - but the translation toolbar does not display the language detected. It simply displays ‘Undefined’. (AJAX API)
  4. If the size of a paragraph in a page approaches 2000 characters, then it will not be translated. (Widget & AJAX API)

  
  
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  Known issues with translation in Microsoft Word

  Chris WendtMicrosoft EmployeeWednesday, September 12, 2012 11:44 PM

  When you try to translate a large Word document by using Microsoft Translator, you might get 404 error. This is a known issue and we're working on this.  If you need to translate a large Word document, we suggest you to split the large document into smaller documents. We will post a note at the forum when this issue gets fixed.
  Thanks. Microsoft Translator Team

  
  
  
  
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  Release Notes for the Current Release (Feb 2013)

  Microsoft Translator Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:42 AM

  Feature highlights for the new release:

  • Urdu and Malay support
  • Improvements to handle social media content through statistically trained tuning mechanisms
  • Faster incremental training of self-service customized systems (Translator Hub)
  • Improvement of sentence extraction to return accurate sentence counts (Translator Hub)
  • Increase in speed of PDF extraction (Translator Hub)
  • Ability to run up to ten concurrent trainings (Translator Hub)