Microsoft this morning announced a new feature for its Translator program that will let people use their smartphones to have conversations in several languages at the same time.

Microsoft’s platform is competing with Google Translate to provide the smartest translation tech to users. The biggest problem for both is that unlike with other AI tasks, it’s more art than ...

If not, the Microsoft Translator app will use the offline language packs. The feature is in preview for the next three months and will move to general availability after that.

Microsoft has high-powered translation services built into Skype, PowerPoint and other programs. Language is just one part of Microsoft’s larger vision for AI and machine learning.

In a demo of the prototype software (starts around the 12 minute mark), Rick Rashid, Microsoft's chief research officer, says a long sentence in English, and then has it translated into Spanish ...

The other nine languages in the list are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. The technology's end-to-end speech translation capability works by ...

Microsoft Translator just received a useful update. It now supports accent selection via Speech Regions. This will allow you to hear specific variations of a language. Tired of hearing American ...

Microsoft researchers Frank Soong and Rick Rashid have created a device which converts English language speech into a total of 26 languages.

So even if you’re not a polyglot, you don’t have to worry about anything being lost in translation anymore. At least, not if you have Microsoft Translator’s help.