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Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

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The Microsoft Translator team is excited to announce the new translation bot for Windows Live Messenger! This Messenger bot does translations for you. Just add mtbot@hotmail.com to your contacts and start chatting. You can have one-on-one conversations with the bot, or you can invite a friend and chat in different languages with the bot translating for you.  As usual, remember that machine translation isn’t perfect – slang especially will give the engine trouble.

You can also access Windows Live Messenger on your smartphone to use the bot to translate simple sentences while you’re traveling to other countries!

The translator bot is localized into all of the languages for which we have translation support on www.windowslivetranslator.com:

  • English to/from:
    • Arabic
    • Chinese Simplified
    • Chinese Traditional
    • Dutch
    • French
    • German
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Portuguese
    • Russian (RUS->ENU only)
    • Spanish
  • Chinese Simplified <-> Chinese Traditional

More languages will be rolled out over the next several months.  Start using the bot and let us know your feedback! FYI - at any time while you’re chatting with the bot, just type “TBot ?” to get a list of commands that the bot understands:

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Published Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:43 PM by MSR-MT Team

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# funny wallpaper &raquo; Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:15 AM by Around and About .NET World

# Un traduttore per Windows Live Messenger

Un traduttore per Windows Live Messenger

Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:26 AM by The blog of Rob Margel

# Windows Live Messenger translation bot!

How great is this latest Bot, from the MSR-MT team Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:26 AM by K#

# Windows live messenger translation bot

Windows live messenger translation bot

Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:46 AM by Ramon Durães

# Coloque um tradutor no seu MSN

A Microsoft acaba de disponibilizar um projeto experimental com um&#160; “Bot” para msn que funciona

Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:43 AM by dwergs (mess with windows live messenger)

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Just tried TBot with one of my Chinese contacts and the results were impressive. Great job!

Wednesday, September 03, 2008 12:23 PM by jamiet

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Why is it mtbot@hotmail.com and not mtbot@live.com??

Wednesday, September 03, 2008 5:33 PM by o UAU nosso de cada dia

# novidade: tradutor instantâneo pro Live Messenger

excelente notícia!&#160; agora você pode conversar pelo Live Messenger com pessoas que falam outras línguas

Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:04 PM by rooro

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

I have tried it ...

Greeeeeeeeaat !

Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:31 AM by DkmS

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Русского языка у бота не видно.

Russian language have not seen Bot (Google translator) ;-)

Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:01 AM by Tatbrat

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

I typed the TBot ? command and it asked me what language I speak and I pressed 3 for english and everything else I type, it's the same question over and over.  Is there something else I need to do?  Everything I type to TBot, it keeps asking me what language I speak over and over.

Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:49 AM by DkmS

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

No russian:

TBot сообщает (11:48):

Ok. You picked ENGLISH. Please select your target language

0 Change source language

1 Arabic

2 Chinese Simplified

3 Chinese Traditional

4 Dutch

5 French

6 German

7 Italian

8 Japanese

9 Korean

10 Portuguese

11 Spanish

Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:55 AM by miriam

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

hi, i have to report a bug. the bot isn't translating from german to french. it just echos the german words. also the same thing with french to german.

Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:06 AM by Diyo

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

why the hell is it trying to be smart about what i want translated

I wanted to translate "Bite me"

it says thats bad language, i really dont need it telling me what i should translate or not, that is a phrase i want translation for.

Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:06 PM by Andrea Jessee

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

We are in the process of updating the agent to not show GE<>FR as a language pair anymore. We apologize for the confusion this has caused!

This update will also address the automatic "language censoring" messenger agents are typically equipped with. We agree that our agent should not tell you what you would like translated. Please stay tuned for updates...

Thanks, Andrea (TBot Program Manager)

Thursday, September 04, 2008 4:32 PM by SETHnet.es

# Noticias y traducciones automaticas en Windows Live Messenger.

Debo reconocer que aunque llevo tiempo usando los que llamo programas de comunicaciones, no ha sido hasta hace poco que he empezado a usar con más asiduidad el servicio de mensajería que ofrece Microsoft a través de Windows Live Messenger. Siempre m

Thursday, September 04, 2008 6:15 PM by KCorax

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Do you have plans to introduce a more complete service such as this http://kcorax.net/lab/project/pigeon-translation-service/ ?

Friday, September 05, 2008 5:13 AM by Coggi

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The translation from italian to english is quite bad...it's too much literal :S

Like "sei carino" which means "You're nice" being translated "six nice" where "sei" is also the word for the number 6... :(

Saturday, September 06, 2008 3:04 PM by Andy Skipper

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Seems to work quite well! It even passed the lingua-loop (tm) test, where you translate something to one language, and then back. Well, for Italian, anywho:

bufo bufo says:

 excuse me, i happen to be a literary genius. now please pass the vinegar

TBot says:

 Mi scusi, i dà il caso essere un genio letterario. ora prego passare l'aceto

..

bufo bufo says:

 Mi scusi, i dà il caso essere un genio letterario. ora prego passare l'aceto

TBot says:

 I am sorry, i happen to be a literary genius. now please pass the vinegar

Almost spot on!

Monday, September 08, 2008 9:54 PM by Chris Wendt

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

We did turn off the "smart" responses. From now on you will get just the translation, as good as our engine can produce it. Diyo, thanks for your report on this.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:45 AM by Jiahd Al-hazineh

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Excellent .. Arabic translation is not bad at all.‎

Is there an SDK or resources for creating and customizing messenger BOTs?‎

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:12 PM by MSR-MT Team

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:43 PM by Mustafa Kaya

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

it is excellent but we want to see TURKISH at there:)

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:46 PM by Matti-Koopa

# IMPORTANT

PLEASE bring back the bot:bye command!

It was VERY USEFULL for group conversations.

Now you have to wait for some stupid timeout...

Also the bot now always seems to "type a message" which is annoying.

Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:59 PM by MSR-MT Team

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Try the "tbot stop" command

Saturday, September 13, 2008 3:38 PM by CorrecteurOrthographiqueOffice

# Windows Live Translator utilise uniquement le système de traduction automatique de Microsoft Research

Mes collègues de Microsoft Research l’annonçaient il y a quelques jours : toutes les paires de langues

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:57 PM by The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck

# Windows Live Messenger translation bot, Live Translation Services - English to other languages and Vice Versa - Translate Medical Quack Site to other languages Too

&#160; Need a quick translation from English to other languages, this is hot.&#160; To do a simple translation

Friday, September 26, 2008 5:17 AM by Cecilia

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Guys, this needs a lot of work, I just tried it in spanish with my friend....things like : Where are you from? are not understood....great idea but come one...needs to be better quality to get to market

Sunday, September 28, 2008 2:13 PM by Alejandro Ramirez' Blog

# Windows Live Messenger translation

The "Microsoft Research Machine Translation (MSR-MT)" Team announced at the beginning of this month that

Monday, October 13, 2008 2:55 PM by Translation Blog

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Really any automatic translation work properly, and Windows Live Messenger Translation was not the exception.

Try to translate anything using any machine translation to language A to language B and then from language B to language A, and see the results.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:52 PM by Andrea Jessee

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Indeed, the result will be different because Machine Translation is not as simple as a dictionary lookup :(. The question is, even in the absence of perfection, can it be helpful...? Does an imperfect translation still enable us to understand the gist of a foreign message? If so then it is worth all our efforts.

Thanks for your comment, -- Andrea

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:56 AM by Audrey

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I think it would be very helpful to have Tbot give you a 'word/phrase of the day' whenever you start a conversation with it. I think that would be a great addition, but Tbot as it is is very good.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:10 AM by MSR-MT Team

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Audrey - that is a great idea. I will make sure to bring it up in our next feature discussion.

thanks!

Vikram

(Sr. Product Mgr., Microsoft Translator Team)

Sunday, November 16, 2008 3:31 AM by Osvaldo Guerra y Villar

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

First of all Thank You for the information. it is wonderful. I will pass the information about this wonderful idea. I also will use it and discuss about it in my next feature discussion including professionnal Translators.

With Thanks and best wishes of succes?

gyvillar@gmail.com

Friday, December 05, 2008 2:17 PM by Lester's WPF blog

# Translation bot for Messenger

Did you know about it. I tried it out today and it works pretty well. All you need to do is add mtbot@hotmail.com

Friday, December 05, 2008 7:08 PM by Vyacheslav Lanovets

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Russian->English translation is poor. It's poor even if I use "english-like" word order and very simple Russian.

And I heard same thing is used for localized MSDN translation. Brrr.

I liked the result of translation for "поди туда, не знаю куда". That was "Probably there, I do not know where" :-)

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:47 AM by rick

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thanks so much i could not talk to my friend in columbia without it

wow its great

Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:08 AM by Kidoos

# Windows Live Translator Bot

You may be aware of Microsoft&#39;s language translation service at http://www.windowslivetranslator

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:42 PM by Thom Robbins .NET Weblog

# Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available

Pretty cool idea for a messenger translation bot

Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:21 AM by Architects Rule!

# This could save your life when on holiday! (runs on Smartphone)

Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available! The Microsoft Translator team is excited to announce

Monday, December 22, 2008 5:41 PM by neuronspark

# Machine Translation Bot

Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available! The Microsoft Translator team from Microsoft Research has released new translation bot into the wild for Windows Live Messenger. This Messenger bot does translations when you add mtbot@hotmail.com

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:23 PM by Al

# mtbot@hotmail.com!

Mine doesn't work got any ideas

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:22 PM by Lane

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Thank you for the comment - the Live Agents support team is looking into this issue now.  I will repost back here when we are back up.

Thanks,

Lane

MSR-MT Team

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:23 PM by Lane

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

UPDATE:  The server hosting TBot has been restarted and should be responsive now.  Please let us know on this blog if there are further issues!

Cheers,

Lane

MSR-MT Team

Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:20 PM by Mirrored Blogs

# [NEWS] Novo Windows Live Messenger BOT (Translation) disponível

Corpo: Olá pessoal, Alguns dias atrás eu vi esta notícia, testei e achei super bacana ... então, decidi

Sunday, February 08, 2009 7:14 AM by adil

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The translation from english to arabic is quite bad

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:57 PM by ms jang

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I'm glad to meet your team.

but, yet Korean translations infants level

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:40 AM by Rinko

# I need help.

I want to translate from English to Japanese but it keep showing Japanese to English. What should I do?

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:19 PM by Jonathan

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Please add a "TBot identify" command that allows me to type a phrase and then returns a best guess attempt at identifying the source language.  Something like this:  http://ruphus.com/identify/.  It will save me going to the web everytime I need to identify a language.

Thanks for the great service!

-Jonathan

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:45 PM by MSR-MT Team

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Thank you for the feedback!  We will add this to our list of features to consider for a future release. :)

Cheers,

Lane Rau

Microsoft Translator team

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:50 PM by MSR-MT Team

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

@Rinko, type in Tbot ? to get a list of commands.  One of the commands will allow you to change languages.  

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Lane Rau

Microsoft Translator team

Friday, April 10, 2009 1:38 AM by Robert Holloway

# Doe this support latest Live Messenger build 14?

I cannot seem to get this thing working on my version of Live Messenger. It woke up a few days ago, but I could never get it to allow me to invite another person on Messenger. Now it does not wake up at all...I wonder if it is compatable with the latest version of Live Messenger? Can someone tell me????

Friday, April 10, 2009 2:34 AM by Robert Holloway

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Now I can get it to wake up, but it never comes online, and I cannot invite another member to it or it to them..the bot is always Offline and will not allow me to invite anyone...Is it offline a lot or just something not working right? Thanks for any help I can get...

Friday, April 10, 2009 6:38 AM by MSR-MT Team

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Robert, can you send your system info (Messenger version/build number, Operating system) and the bot address (mtbot@hotmail.com?) to the following email?

mtcont (at) microsoft.com

We will work with you to figure out why it might not be working.

Thanks!

Vikram Dendi

Microsoft Translator team

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:10 PM by Amali

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

i would really love to communicate with all me friends i'm counting on u

Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:55 AM by Luke

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I said can you speak enlish? and it translated the question as can you speak japanese!!!!

Luke says:

can you speak english?

TBot 2 Alpha says:

japanese が話せますか。

Tuesday, June 09, 2009 2:46 PM by Mike

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I would like to use MTBOT with Microsoft OCS. Since we are Federated I can add the bot to my contact list in Communicator. I can chat one on one with the bot but I can not add the bot into a session with others. Example I initiate an IM sesssion with one other person and than invite the MTBOT to the conference. I get the following error: Cannot invite TBot 2 Alpha to join this conference. This person is using a messaging program that does not support more than two participants in a conversation.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:38 PM by Jim

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How many participants can be in session with the bot?

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:42 PM by Mike

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Follow up to yesterdays MTBOT with OCS. Today the bot is showing available but not responding...msg indicates offline. Would like to leverage in OCS sessions if possible.

Monday, June 15, 2009 10:10 AM by Quality Directory

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I'm testing MTBOT now. I like it - very interesting!

Saturday, June 27, 2009 5:16 AM by Computer products

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The Live Messenger translation bot makes life a lot easier.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:44 AM by Brendan Maher

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Wow, what a great service!  I chat with a Russian IT team all the time and although their English is really quite good this service lets us chat faster.

A really great enhancement would be to allow people to teach the bots better translations.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:10 PM by PATZY MADIN

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QUISIERA UN TRADUCTOR PARA UNOS DE MIS CONTACTOS DE MSN ESPANOL A ITALIANO

Monday, July 13, 2009 11:26 AM by Joe Rock

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This is absolutely useful!!! MTBOT Rocks!!!

Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:44 PM by Luis

# tbot is not available, I haven't response

tbot is not working, it is offline??

Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:49 PM by MSR-MT Team

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@Luis: Can you verify which email address you are using? mtbot@hotmail.com is up and running.

Thursday, July 16, 2009 6:30 PM by Nina

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Adicionei o Tbot em meu msn porêm ele assim aparece offline, como faço para coloca - lo online, uma vez que ele estando offiline não tenho como chamar para conversação a três?

Sunday, August 09, 2009 10:12 PM by Celeste Souza

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gosto muito das traduções,mas as vezes ainda me enrosco em alguns itens.mas vou aprender ta.

Sunday, August 09, 2009 10:18 PM by Celeste Souza

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isso,quando o tbot esta offline como coloca-lo online??assim adiciona-lo a conversa?

Sunday, August 23, 2009 8:22 PM by James

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I think the bot could be very useful. I have added mtbot@hotmail.com but although it is in my list it is not online for me to communicate with.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:54 AM by cualquiera

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necesito un traductor para mi correo

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:37 PM by Charles Ford

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the bot has not been active for many weeks, after the last upgrade, it seemed to disappear. It was a great tool, and I miss it.

Saturday, August 29, 2009 2:34 PM by Juliana

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adicionei o tbot no meu messenger, mas ele não fica online. Assim, não consigo convidar amigos para a janela de conversa. O que faço?

Sunday, August 30, 2009 1:40 AM by MAURIZIO

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PER TE LA NUOVA VERSIONE LANCIO PER WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER TRANSLATION

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:09 AM by Bernabas Irijanto

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it is excellent but we want to see INDONESIAN at there .

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:11 AM by Bernabas Irijanto

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it is excellent but we want to see INDONESIAN at there .

Sunday, September 27, 2009 8:10 PM by Gustavo

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Muito bom tradutor inglês-português gratuito para o MSN

Saturday, October 17, 2009 12:00 AM by Eve

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10.10.2008

Để hưởng ứng việc Đức Thánh Cha Bênêđictô XVI công bố Năm Thánh Phaolô, Đức Cha Michael Saltarelli, Giám Mục Wilmington đã viết một thư mục vụ vào ngày 25 tháng 1 năm 2008, trong đó ngài đưa ra sáu đề tài giúp các tín hữu Công Giáo sửa soạn học tập và sống tinh thần của Thánh Phaolô trong năm Thánh Phaolô này. Chúng tôi xin mạn phép chuyển ngữ sang tiếng Việt Nam để đóng góp vào những tài liệu học tập của tín hữu Việt Nam trong năm này.

HỌC VÀ SỐNG TINH THẦN THÁNH PHAOLÔ

Trong Năm Thánh Phaolô: 28/6/2008-29/6/2009

Để hưởng ứng việc Đức Thánh Cha Bênêđictô XVI công bố Năm Thánh Phaolô, Đức Cha Michael Saltarelli, Giám Mục Wilmington đã viết một thư mục vụ vào ngày 25 tháng 1 năm 2008, trong đó ngài đưa ra sáu đề tài giúp các tín hữu Công Giáo sửa soạn học tập và sống tinh thần của Thánh Phaolô trong năm Thánh Phaolô này. Chúng tôi xin mạn phép chuyển ngữ sang tiếng Việt Nam để đóng góp vào những tài liệu học tập của tín hữu Việt Nam trong năm này.

Saturday, October 17, 2009 12:01 AM by Eve

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

Ủy Ban Giáo Lý Việt Nam tại Hoa Kỳ http://giaoly.org/vn

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Học và Sống Tinh Thần Thánh Phaolô

10.10.2008

Để hưởng ứng việc Đức Thánh Cha Bênêđictô XVI công bố Năm Thánh Phaolô, Đức Cha Michael Saltarelli, Giám Mục Wilmington đã viết một thư mục vụ vào ngày 25 tháng 1 năm 2008, trong đó ngài đưa ra sáu đề tài giúp các tín hữu Công Giáo sửa soạn học tập và sống tinh thần của Thánh Phaolô trong năm Thánh Phaolô này. Chúng tôi xin mạn phép chuyển ngữ sang tiếng Việt Nam để đóng góp vào những tài liệu học tập của tín hữu Việt Nam trong năm này.

HỌC VÀ SỐNG TINH THẦN THÁNH PHAOLÔ

Trong Năm Thánh Phaolô: 28/6/2008-29/6/2009

Để hưởng ứng việc Đức Thánh Cha Bênêđictô XVI công bố Năm Thánh Phaolô, Đức Cha Michael Saltarelli, Giám Mục Wilmington đã viết một thư mục vụ vào ngày 25 tháng 1 năm 2008, trong đó ngài đưa ra sáu đề tài giúp các tín hữu Công Giáo sửa soạn học tập và sống tinh thần của Thánh Phaolô trong năm Thánh Phaolô này. Chúng tôi xin mạn phép chuyển ngữ sang tiếng Việt Nam để đóng góp vào những tài liệu học tập của tín hữu Việt Nam trong năm này.

Saturday, October 17, 2009 7:58 AM by issa

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le robot est très éfficace pour la traduction.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:53 PM by # 再: Windows Live Messenger 翻译 bot 现已推出

# re: Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available!

# 再: Windows Live Messenger 翻译 bot 现已推出

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:54 PM by # 再: Windows Live Messenger 翻译 bot 现已推出

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# 再: Windows Live Messenger 翻译 bot 现已推出

Friday, October 23, 2009 4:38 AM by troconis

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es fantastico el Windows Live Messenger translation bot, yo lo use para la traduccion de una convrsacion de español a aleman.... pero quisiera saber como hago nuevamente para cambiar la traduccion a otro idioma, ejemplo de aleman a ingles?..por favor

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:08 PM by julio cesar

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como cambio mis preferencias de idioma

Friday, November 27, 2009 4:36 PM by humerusGreek

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humerusGreek

Saturday, November 28, 2009 11:29 PM by Hesham Rashwan

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I need to use it bout I don't know how I can do that please send to my e-mail

rashwan999@hotmail.com

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