A metal can (can’t it?): Guest Blog

re: A metal can (can’t it?): Guest Blog

Microsoft Translator — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:14:47 GMT

Hi NOMUSA Mabaso,

We do not currently support Zulu or South Afrian languages in Microsoft Translator.

As soon as we do, we will post a notice here. Thanks. Takako --Microsoft Translator--

re: A metal can (can’t it?): Guest Blog

NOMUSA Mabaso — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:51:48 GMT

I WOULDreally appreciate if ZULU language or any south african language is included in these translations

It worked like a charm

Daniel Grau — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:54:24 GMT

Thanks a lot, Vikram. I'm a happy programmer!

Daniel

re: A metal can (can’t it?): Guest Blog

Microsoft Translator — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:51:30 GMT

Hi Daniel,

I am subbing for Lane on this question.

If you want to pass a txt string and language pair to the service, a rough way would be through our HTTP interface:

http://api.microsofttranslator.com/V1/Http.svc/Translate?appId=<yourappid>&from=en&to=es&text=hello+world

Please replace the <yourappid> above with a Live Search developer id. (http://search.live.com/developers/createapp.aspx)

Our interactive SDK is here:

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9656019

If you are looking to pass a URL and a language pair (from-to) to our service and get it rendered in a different language, perhaps the easiest way to do it would be to use our "hosted" service on microsofttranslator.com. Use the following blog post as a guide to how you can pass URLs and other parameters to the service:

http://blogs.msdn.com/translation/archive/2008/11/10/linking-to-a-foreign-language-web-page-with-microsoft-translator.aspx

This was a good question - and we will make sure to surface this up in a future blog post.

Let us know if this works for you,

Vikram Dendi

Microsoft Translator team

How can I access the server directly from the URL line

Daniel Grau — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:54:06 GMT

Thanks, Lane, but that's not what I need.

I'n on a Mac, and I would like being able to send my Safari browser a URL from within MS Word through a VBA macro or an Applescript, and have it automatically open the landing page with the translation already being displayed. Can this be done?

Daniel

re: A metal can (can’t it?): Guest Blog

Microsoft Translator — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:31:00 GMT

@Daniel - if you would like to translate a single sentence or word, go to the landing page for our web service, at www.microsofttranslator.com

Cheers,

Lane Rau

Microsoft Translator team

How can I access the server directly from the URL line

Daniel Grau — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:56:07 GMT

I've seen that one can type a special URL sequence and go directly to the side-by-side translation page. For instance:

http://www.windowslivetranslator.com/BV.aspx?lp=en_es&a=http://www.google.com

What would the equivalent sequence be if I wanted to translate a single sentence or word, instead of a web page?

Regards,

Daniel

Announcing the Microsoft Translator web page widget

Microsoft Office Project Support Blog — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:26:30 GMT

This is a repost from the Microsoft Research Machine Translation (MSR-MT) Team Blog by permission, and

Announcing the Microsoft Translator web page widget

Microsoft Research Machine Translation (MSR-MT) Team Blog — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:16:53 GMT

The Microsoft Translator team is very proud to announce the technology preview of an innovative offering

re: A metal can (can’t it?): Guest Blog

Flatliner DOA — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:10:28 GMT

So can we can the whole idea of Machine Translation instead? :p