Microsoft launches a translation service 2007-09-10
Machine translation was a weapon which still missed with the arsenal of research under Live label set up by the world leader of the software. A lapse of memory on the way to be repaired with launching in caiman of a service on line dedicated to this field. For the hour in version beta, Windows Live Translator would have in all logic being quickly integrated as a functionality into the engine Live Search.
An automatic translator with the defects of the kind
Like Google, the free tool of Microsoft rests on Systran with a bond suggested at the foot of the page for the purchase of the one of the software of translation of this editor. The results obtained via Windows Live Translator are thus same quality as those posted by its counterpart of Mountain View even if if apparently the version of Systran used by Microsoft is more up to date. If small more there must be, he is at the level of the integration of an in-house technology developed by Redmond, interesting the translation of technical terms in particular with the recourse to MSDN Library.
Windows Live Translator can translate with the choice a text of 500 words or the integrality of a Web page *. the languages dealt with go from English, French, Spanish German while passing through Portuguese, Italian, Japanese or Russian without the operated translation being inevitably directional bi-.
To test Windows Live Translator (Beta) * *
* Another small interesting point, posting coast at coast of the original page and its translation.
** Several reserved addresses:
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