<s>
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
is	O
a	O
multilingual	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
cloud	B-Architecture
service	I-Architecture
provided	O
by	O
Microsoft	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
is	O
a	O
part	O
of	O
Microsoft	O
Cognitive	O
Services	O
and	O
integrated	O
across	O
multiple	O
consumer	O
,	O
developer	O
,	O
and	O
enterprise	O
products	O
;	O
including	O
Bing	B-Application
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Office	I-Application
,	O
SharePoint	B-Protocol
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Edge	I-Application
,	O
Microsoft	B-Protocol
Lync	I-Protocol
,	O
Yammer	B-Protocol
,	O
Skype	B-Protocol
Translator	I-Protocol
,	O
Visual	B-Application
Studio	I-Application
,	O
and	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
apps	O
for	O
Windows	O
,	O
Windows	B-Protocol
Phone	I-Protocol
,	O
iPhone	B-Device
and	O
Apple	B-Device
Watch	I-Device
,	O
and	O
Android	B-Application
phone	I-Application
and	O
Android	B-Application
Wear	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
also	O
offers	O
text	O
and	O
speech	O
translation	O
through	O
cloud	B-Architecture
services	I-Architecture
for	O
businesses	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Service	O
for	O
text	O
translation	O
via	O
the	O
Translator	O
Text	O
API	B-Application
ranges	O
from	O
a	O
free	O
tier	O
supporting	O
two	O
million	O
characters	O
per	O
month	O
to	O
paid	O
tiers	O
supporting	O
billions	O
of	O
characters	O
per	O
month	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
also	O
supports	O
several	O
speech	O
translation	B-Application
systems	I-Application
that	O
currently	O
power	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
live	O
conversation	O
feature	O
,	O
Skype	B-Protocol
Translator	I-Protocol
,	O
and	O
Skype	O
for	O
Windows	O
Desktop	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
Apps	O
for	O
iOS	B-Application
and	O
Android	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
Microsoft	O
's	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
system	I-Application
was	O
developed	O
between	O
1999	O
and	O
2000	O
within	O
Microsoft	O
Research	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
system	O
was	O
based	O
on	O
semantic	O
predicate-argument	O
structures	O
known	O
as	O
logical	O
forms	O
(	O
LF	O
)	O
and	O
was	O
spun	O
from	O
the	O
grammar	O
correction	O
feature	O
developed	O
for	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Word	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	O
's	O
approach	O
to	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
,	O
like	O
most	O
modern	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
systems	I-Application
,	O
is	O
"	O
data	B-Application
driven	I-Application
"	O
:	O
Rather	O
than	O
relying	O
on	O
writing	O
explicit	O
rules	O
to	O
translate	O
natural	O
language	O
,	O
algorithms	O
are	O
trained	O
to	O
understand	O
and	O
interpret	O
translated	O
parallel	O
texts	O
,	O
allowing	O
them	O
to	O
automatically	O
learn	O
how	O
to	O
translate	O
new	O
natural	O
language	O
text	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	O
's	O
experience	O
with	O
the	O
LF	O
system	O
led	O
directly	O
to	O
a	O
treelet	O
translation	B-Application
system	I-Application
that	O
simplified	O
the	O
LF	O
to	O
dependency	O
trees	O
and	O
eventually	O
to	O
an	O
order	O
template	O
model	O
,	O
significantly	O
improving	O
in	O
speed	O
and	O
enabling	O
the	O
incorporation	O
of	O
new	O
target	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
consumer-facing	O
translation	O
site	O
known	O
as	O
Bing	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
(	O
previously	O
known	O
as	O
Windows	B-Application
Live	I-Application
translator	I-Application
)	O
was	O
launched	O
in	O
2007	O
and	O
provides	O
free	O
text	O
and	O
website	B-Application
translations	I-Application
on	O
the	O
web	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Text	O
is	O
translated	O
directly	O
within	O
the	O
Bing	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
webpage	O
while	O
websites	O
are	O
translated	O
through	O
the	O
Bilingual	O
Viewer	O
tools	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2011	O
,	O
the	O
service	O
was	O
extended	O
to	O
include	O
numerous	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
products	O
through	O
a	O
cloud-based	B-Architecture
application	B-Application
programming	I-Application
interface	I-Application
,	O
which	O
supports	O
products	O
available	O
to	O
both	O
consumer	O
and	O
enterprise	O
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
2018	O
,	O
an	O
update	O
to	O
the	O
API	B-Application
was	O
introduced	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
new	O
version	O
offered	O
neural	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
as	O
the	O
default	O
method	O
of	O
translating	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Speech	O
translation	O
was	O
integrated	O
into	O
Microsoft	O
Speech	O
services	O
in	O
September	O
2018	O
,	O
providing	O
end-to-end	O
speech	O
,	O
speech-to-text	O
,	O
and	O
text-to-speech	B-Application
translation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
uses	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
to	O
create	O
instantaneous	O
translations	O
from	O
one	O
natural	O
language	O
to	O
another	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Type	O
of	O
learning	O
Impact	O
on	O
translation	O
Neural	O
networksNeural	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
Neural	O
networks	O
try	O
to	O
mimic	O
how	O
the	O
brain	O
works	O
to	O
translate	O
between	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
First	O
,	O
a	O
first	O
stage	O
models	O
the	O
word	B-Application
that	O
needs	O
to	O
be	O
translated	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
context	O
of	O
this	O
word	B-Application
(	O
and	O
its	O
possible	O
translations	O
)	O
within	O
the	O
full	O
sentence	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Second	O
,	O
the	O
neural	O
network	O
translates	O
this	O
word	B-Application
model	O
(	O
not	O
the	O
word	B-Application
itself	O
but	O
the	O
model	O
the	O
neural	O
networks	O
built	O
of	O
it	O
)	O
,	O
within	O
the	O
context	O
of	O
the	O
sentence	O
,	O
into	O
the	O
other	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Neural	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
default	O
translation	O
method	O
for	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
API	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Syntax-based	O
SMT	O
Syntax-based	O
translation	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
idea	O
of	O
translating	O
syntactic	O
units	O
,	O
rather	O
than	O
a	O
word	B-Application
or	O
string	O
of	O
words	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ongoing	O
research	O
in	O
this	O
area	O
has	O
produced	O
improvements	O
in	O
word	B-Application
inflections	O
and	O
word	B-Application
ordering	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bitext	B-General_Concept
word	I-General_Concept
alignment	I-General_Concept
SMT	O
systems	O
rely	O
on	O
existing	O
translated	O
data	O
to	O
learn	O
how	O
to	O
automatically	O
translate	O
from	O
one	O
language	O
to	O
another	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
train	O
the	O
systems	O
,	O
identifying	O
word	B-Application
correspondences	O
(	O
or	O
word	B-General_Concept
alignments	I-General_Concept
)	O
is	O
crucial	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	O
has	O
developed	O
work	O
in	O
both	O
discriminative	O
and	O
generative	O
approaches	O
to	O
word	B-General_Concept
alignment	I-General_Concept
,	O
resulting	O
in	O
faster	O
algorithms	O
and	O
higher	O
quality	O
and	O
translations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Language	B-Language
modeling	I-Language
Language	B-Language
modeling	I-Language
uses	O
n-gram	B-Language
models	O
to	O
construct	O
comprehensible	O
translations	O
in	O
the	O
target	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
quality	O
of	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
’s	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
outputs	O
are	O
evaluated	O
using	O
a	O
method	O
called	O
the	O
BLEU	O
score	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Because	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
is	O
based	O
on	O
statistical	O
algorithms	O
rather	O
than	O
human	O
translators	O
,	O
the	O
automatic	B-Application
translations	I-Application
it	O
produces	O
are	O
not	O
always	O
entirely	O
accurate	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
has	O
introduced	O
various	O
feedback	O
features	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
the	O
Collaborative	O
Translation	O
Framework	O
,	O
into	O
its	O
products	O
to	O
allow	O
users	O
to	O
suggest	O
alternative	O
translations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
alternative	O
translations	O
are	O
then	O
integrated	O
into	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
algorithms	O
to	O
improve	O
future	O
translations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2016	O
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
introduced	O
translation	O
using	O
deep	O
neural	O
networks	O
in	O
nine	O
of	O
its	O
highest	O
traffic	O
languages	O
,	O
including	O
all	O
of	O
its	O
speech	O
languages	O
and	O
Japanese	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
is	O
a	O
cloud-based	B-Architecture
API	B-Application
that	O
is	O
integrated	O
into	O
numerous	O
Microsoft	O
products	O
and	O
services	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Translator	O
API	B-Application
can	O
be	O
used	O
on	O
its	O
own	O
and	O
can	O
be	O
customized	O
for	O
use	O
in	O
a	O
pre-publishing	O
or	O
post-publishing	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
API	B-Application
,	O
which	O
is	O
available	O
through	O
subscription	O
,	O
is	O
free	O
for	O
lower	O
translation	O
volumes	O
,	O
and	O
is	O
charged	O
according	O
to	O
a	O
tiered	O
payment	O
system	O
for	O
volumes	O
exceeding	O
two	O
million	O
characters	O
per	O
month	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
is	O
a	O
cloud-based	B-Architecture
automatic	B-Application
translation	I-Application
service	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
build	O
applications	O
,	O
websites	O
,	O
and	O
tools	O
requiring	O
multi-language	O
support	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Text	O
translation	O
:	O
The	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
Text	O
API	B-Application
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
translate	O
text	O
into	O
any	O
of	O
the	O
languages	O
supported	O
by	O
the	O
service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Speech	O
translation	O
:	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
is	O
integrated	O
into	O
Microsoft	O
Speech	O
services	O
which	O
is	O
an	O
end-to-end	O
REST	O
based	O
API	B-Application
that	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
build	O
applications	O
,	O
tools	O
,	O
or	O
any	O
solution	O
requiring	O
multi-languages	O
speech	O
translation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Custom	O
Translator	O
is	O
a	O
feature	O
of	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
services	O
that	O
allows	O
enterprises	O
,	O
app	O
developers	O
,	O
and	O
language	O
service	O
providers	O
to	O
build	O
neural	O
translation	B-Application
systems	I-Application
that	O
understand	O
the	O
terminology	O
used	O
in	O
their	O
own	O
business	O
and	O
industry	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
customized	O
translations	O
can	O
then	O
be	O
delivered	O
into	O
existing	O
applications	O
,	O
workflows	O
and	O
websites	O
using	O
a	O
normal	O
call	O
to	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
API	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Custom	O
Translator	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
when	O
translating	O
text	O
with	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
Text	O
API	B-Application
and	O
when	O
translating	O
speech	O
with	O
Microsoft	O
Speech	O
services	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
feature	O
is	O
currently	O
free	O
and	O
available	O
in	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
apps	O
(	O
Android	B-Application
,	O
iOS	B-Application
or	O
Windows	O
)	O
and	O
from	O
the	O
browser	O
at	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
Hub	O
allows	O
enterprises	O
and	O
language	O
service	O
providers	O
to	O
build	O
their	O
own	O
translation	B-Application
systems	I-Application
that	O
understand	O
business	O
-	O
and	O
industry-specific	O
terminology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
Hub	O
is	O
only	O
available	O
for	O
statistical	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
and	O
cannot	O
be	O
used	O
with	O
the	O
newest	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
API	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Hub	O
has	O
also	O
been	O
used	O
for	O
language	O
preservation	O
,	O
allowing	O
communities	O
to	O
create	O
their	O
own	O
language	O
translation	B-Application
systems	I-Application
for	O
language	O
and	O
cultural	O
preservation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Hub	O
has	O
been	O
used	O
to	O
create	O
translation	B-Application
systems	I-Application
for	O
languages	O
such	O
as	O
Hmong	O
,	O
Mayan	O
,	O
Nepali	O
,	O
and	O
Welsh	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Multilingual	O
App	O
Toolkit	O
(	O
MAT	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
integrated	O
Visual	B-Application
Studio	I-Application
tool	O
,	O
which	O
allows	O
developers	O
to	O
streamline	O
localization	O
workflows	O
of	O
their	O
Windows	O
,	O
Windows	B-Protocol
Phone	I-Protocol
and	O
desktop	O
apps	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
(	O
previously	O
Live	B-Application
Search	I-Application
Translator	I-Application
,	O
Windows	B-Application
Live	I-Application
Translator	I-Application
,	O
and	O
Bing	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
)	O
is	O
a	O
user	O
facing	O
translation	O
portal	O
provided	O
by	O
Microsoft	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
its	O
Bing	B-Application
services	O
to	O
translate	O
texts	O
or	O
entire	O
web	O
pages	O
into	O
different	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
translation	O
pairs	O
are	O
powered	O
by	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
,	O
a	O
Neural	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
platform	O
and	O
web	O
service	O
,	O
developed	O
by	O
Microsoft	O
Research	O
,	O
as	O
its	O
backend	O
translation	B-Application
software	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bing	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
can	O
translate	O
phrases	O
entered	O
by	O
the	O
user	O
or	O
acquire	O
a	O
link	O
to	O
a	O
web	O
page	O
and	O
translate	O
it	O
entirely	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
translating	O
an	O
entire	O
web	O
page	O
,	O
or	O
when	O
the	O
user	O
selects	O
"	O
Translate	O
this	O
page	O
"	O
in	O
Bing	B-Application
search	I-Application
results	O
,	O
the	O
Bilingual	O
Viewer	O
is	O
shown	O
,	O
which	O
allows	O
users	O
to	O
browse	O
the	O
original	O
web	O
page	O
text	O
and	O
translation	O
in	O
parallel	O
,	O
supported	O
by	O
synchronized	O
highlights	O
,	O
scrolling	O
,	O
and	O
navigation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bing	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
integrates	O
with	O
several	O
other	O
Microsoft	O
products	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
following	O
is	O
a	O
table	O
of	O
products	O
into	O
which	O
Bing	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
is	O
integrated	O
or	O
may	O
be	O
integrated	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Through	O
its	O
core	O
product	O
offerings	O
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
supports	O
the	O
translation	O
features	O
of	O
many	O
Microsoft	O
products	O
at	O
the	O
consumer	O
and	O
enterprise	O
levels	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
products	O
fall	O
broadly	O
into	O
three	O
categories	O
—	O
communication	O
products	O
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Office	I-Application
,	O
and	O
apps	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Collaborative	O
Translation	O
Framework	O
(	O
CTF	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
extension	O
of	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
API	B-Application
that	O
allows	O
post-publishing	O
improvement	O
of	O
translated	O
text	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
using	O
the	O
CTF	O
,	O
readers	O
have	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
suggest	O
alternative	O
translations	O
to	O
those	O
provided	O
by	O
the	O
API	B-Application
,	O
or	O
vote	O
on	O
previously	O
offered	O
alternatives	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
information	O
is	O
then	O
delivered	O
to	O
the	O
API	B-Application
to	O
improve	O
future	O
translations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
supports	O
129	O
languages	O
and	O
language	O
varieties	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
list	O
of	O
supported	O
languages	O
is	O
available	O
at	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
website	O
and	O
can	O
also	O
be	O
retrieved	O
programmatically	O
through	O
the	O
cloud	B-Architecture
services	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
has	O
engaged	O
with	O
community	O
partners	O
to	O
increase	O
the	O
number	O
of	O
languages	O
and	O
to	O
improve	O
overall	O
language	O
translation	O
quality	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Below	O
is	O
a	O
list	O
of	O
community	O
partners	O
that	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
has	O
teamed	O
with	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Additionally	O
,	O
Microsoft	O
has	O
teamed	O
with	O
the	O
Klingon	O
Language	O
Institute	O
,	O
which	O
promotes	O
the	O
constructed	O
language	O
,	O
Klingon	O
,	O
which	O
is	O
used	O
within	O
the	O
fictional	O
Star	B-Operating_System
Trek	I-Operating_System
universe	O
produced	O
by	O
Paramount	O
and	O
CBS	O
Studios	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Klingon	O
has	O
been	O
supported	O
by	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Translator	I-Application
since	O
May	O
2013	O
.	O
</s>
