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Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

שלום לעולם!

I am pleased to announce that we just added Hebrew to the list of languages that we support. You can immediately use it in Bing Translator, in IE8, with the widget, with the messenger bot, inside Office and of course with the API.

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I would like to congratulate our language quality and coverage team on the progress they have been making with new languages. Over the next few months you will see more languages added to the mix, and also continue to see quality improvements for existing languages. Feel free to leave a comment on this thread about any languages you would particularly like to see.

We have also had many of you contacting us about helping find data sources that can be useful to train the machine translation system on – we appreciate your help! Our email address is mtcont@microsoft.com. Do stay in touch!

-Vikram

Published Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:35 AM by MSR-MT Team

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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:36 AM by yannis

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

Congratulations on the new language!

I'd like to see support for Greek and Turkish in Bing Translator.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:19 AM by noam

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

YES!!!!

been waiting forever!

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:26 AM by Nima

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

Great job guys!! While you're in the middle east, how about adding support for Persian/Farsi??

Keep up the good work :)

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:32 AM by Kourosh

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

Support for the Persian language would be fantastic!!!!

Thanks a lot.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:35 AM by Keyvan Nayyeri

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

Very cool.

I'm asking you to add Persian to your supported languages as it has a reasonable number of speakers in the world plus that there are many resources written in Persian that are invaluable to other speakers in the world. The number of Persian blogs/sites is very high (Iran, one of the Persian countries, is the third country in the world in regards to the number of blogs) and the translation of these resources can have a huge impact on the web.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:38 AM by Mahdi Taghizadeh

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

At least because of recent media situation and censorship in Iran it is necessary to provide Persian (Farsi) translation as well. The world really needs it.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:04 PM by Ali Daneshmandi

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

It would be more pleasant if you add Persian language as well. Thanks anyway.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:29 PM by Anon

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

I would like to see support for Greek like at Google.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:57 PM by yah

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

danish and other east european languages

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:18 PM by Paul

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

I would really like to see Welsh added.  I haven't really seen any translators with this available.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:35 PM by Susan Tsairi

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

This is great news!

Next?  How about making the widget narrower to fit the right sidebar in Ning Networks?

Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:18 AM by Hanan Cohen

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

The Microsoft Translator doesn't translate the word "Microsoft" ;-)

Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:55 PM by Tom Ove

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

I would very much like to see Norwegian added.

Thursday, July 09, 2009 5:42 AM by kiran

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

It would be fine if you add the following languages to Bing Translator.

Albanian

Bulgarian

Catalan

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Estonian

Filipino

Finnish

Galician

Greek

Hindi

Hungarian

Indonesian

Latvian

Lithuanian

Maltese

Norwegian

Persian

Romanian

Serbian

Slovak

Slovenian

Swedish

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Thursday, July 09, 2009 11:35 AM by Mario

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

Icelandic support would be great!

Congrats on the Hebrew announcement

Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:54 PM by richard thompson

# thai

would like the thai language dictionary and learning aids for the language

Sunday, July 12, 2009 1:34 AM by Quality Directory

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

It's a necessary addition. I would like to see popular African languages like Swahili, Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba added as well.

Monday, July 13, 2009 5:14 AM by Madi

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

I would very much like to see Indonesian added.

Sunday, July 26, 2009 7:51 PM by Terry Emery

# Malaysian

I would like the Malaysian language added.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:25 AM by Jonathan Roberts

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

Yeah, I'd like Swedish, outside europe Farsi, Urdu and Arabic

Friday, July 31, 2009 8:53 AM by rick

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

NE MOZE LJUBAV DA NE STANE.........

Whatever that language above is.

Monday, August 03, 2009 3:40 AM by Jeff

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

How about Chinee pin yin?  This is much more readable for non native Chinese readers.  Should be minimal effort, as it is it diretly maps from the Chinese characters.

Tuesday, August 04, 2009 3:48 AM by Nicol

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

Finnish and Swedish, please! :)

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:00 AM by alasdair maccorquodale

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

I would like to see Scottish gaelic & Welsh

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:36 PM by cawi17

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

Hi, I tried to use Bing Translator Thai (Hebrew) text to translate to English, but it still come out as Thai encoding text. Anything I do worong? Thanks

Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:57 PM by Tae

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

Adding Thai to MS's offical translator is good!

Friday, September 04, 2009 6:19 AM by Azhar

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

i want that translation in urdu language is available.

Friday, September 04, 2009 6:20 AM by Azhar

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

I want that urdu language translation is available

Friday, September 25, 2009 9:59 AM by SCH

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

In addition the ones listed above by kiran, I would like to see Haitian Creole and Brazilian Portuguese. Thanks.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:47 PM by Batko

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

I vote for Ukrainian.

The elections are coming in Ukraine and the world will be interested in information from local sources.

Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:32 AM by Alan

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

If at all possible, could Welsh be added please :)

Sunday, November 22, 2009 8:45 PM by Vikram Dendi

# re: Hebrew support is here. What do you want to see next?

Hi folks - thanks for all the votes for Ukranian. We are working on adding it to our language list.

Alan, we have certainly been interested in Welsh. We will need to find more data for training in order to provide a reasonable Welsh machine translation system.

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-Vikram Dendi

Microsoft Translator

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