ISVs Can Tailor Language Translation on Your Websites

No matter how many machines we can throw at translation, ISVs have specific knowledge for language translation. Collaborative Translations Framework – a technology that combines the scale and speed of automatic machine translation with the accuracy and context awareness of human translation. At MIX10, Microsoft Translator API version 2 was announced.

In addition to bringing real-time, in-place translations to your Web site, the Microsoft Translator web page widget v2 adds collaborative features that help tailor the translations delivered to fit your site.

Version 2 also includes a batch interface to translate large amounts of data, support for communicating with the service securely via SSL, and a "Translate-and-Speak" feature (text-to-speech functionality). The translation APIs are available at no cost to developers and partners in SOAP, HTTP, and AJAX flavors so that developers can choose the one that best fits their requirements.

All you need to get started is a Bing Developer AppID. For more details on the Collaborative Translations Framework and how to get started, see Collaborative Translations: Announcing the next version of Microsoft Translator technology – V2 APIs and widget.

The widget is completely free for use on commercial or non-commercial sites. Instead of expensive localization whose costs are incremental if a site has changing content, the translator widget brings a no-cost option to site owners. Depending on your needs, site owners can choose to invite their chosen translators to come help improve the translations delivered to your site.

Bruce D. KyleISV Architect Evangelist | Microsoft Corporation