Transcript Dr. Neil Roodyn - nsquared Vikram Dendi - Microsoft Research It’s a Multilingual world.

Dr. Neil Roodyn - nsquared
Vikram Dendi - Microsoft Research
It’s a Multilingual world
Tremendous Market Opportunity outside of
your language
Don’t miss out
Microsoft Translator V1 (announced MIX 09)
 Simple text translation
 Language detection
 13 languages
 Based on over 10 years of work at MSR
 Multiple developer approaches:
 Widget
 AJAX
 HTTP
 SOAP
Translator Widget v1
 Super simple adoption – copy and paste a snippet of code
 Provides in-place translation of web content
 Differs from earlier add-ons and widget offerings by
delivering translations on the original site
 Uses elegant progressive rendering techniques to display
translations dynamically (as they arrive)
 Better compatibility than proxy based offerings
 Can work on pages on the intranet
Demo
 What you can do with version 1
You wanted more (and so did we)
 Richer translation options
 Allow me to change the translation results
 Read the text out in the language
Announcing the next version of the APIs &
widget
 Collaborative Translations in the API and widget
v2
 More customization in the widget (Auto, Notify)
 Batch Translations support in the API
 Text-to-Speech using the API (7 languages)
 SSL support
 Silverlight translation control (coming soon)
 All MIX attendees have an exclusive invite code in
their attendee bag
 Announcement: Microsoft Translator
Richer Translation Options
 Batching operations
 Detect languages
 Translation
 Break up sentences
Demo
Collaborative Translations
 Combine the power of machine translation with
human editing
 Send an alternative to the system
 Display alternatives on your website
 Manage other peoples submissions of alternatives to
your site
Demo
Read it to me
 Text to Speech – pass text in and return audio, pass
text in one language and have it be spoken in a
different one
 7 languages initially (en, de, es, fr, it, pt, ru)
 As a cloud service
Demo
We want everyone using this
 Multi-platform
 Web
 Smart client
 Focus on developers
 Multiple ways to use it: SOAP, HTTP, AJAX and widget
Phone – is there a new phone ?
Silverlight
 Broad, well documented API support makes it easy to
consume in Silvelight
 Coming soon: Silverlight translation control/library
 Familiar, simple and easy to use – wraps the APIs for
easy consumption into Silverlight
Demo
Partners
 Using translation for our own benefits (I love
recursion!)
 High volume features in Office, Bing, Internet Explorer
 Significant use by MSDN, Customer Support and
localization groups
 Wide spread adoption of APIs and widget externally
 Free commercial licensing tier
No excuses, just do it
 It is so simple to add translation
 Widget
 AJAX
 SOAP
 HTTP
Resources and other Services
 Getting Started: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9666938
 Microsoft Translator blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/translation
 Bing Translator – text & webpage translation:
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http://www.bing.com/translate
Powered by Microsoft Translator:
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/tools/
Developers: http://www.microsofttranslator.com/dev/
Translation Accelerator for IE8
Translation Messenger Bot: Add [email protected] to your
Live Messenger and start a conversation
Integration with Bing
Integration with Office
Bi-lingual Viewer User Experience
Contact: [email protected]
OBRIGADO!
СПАСИБО!
TACK!
THANK YOU!
DANKE
MERCI
GRACIAS
谢谢您
GRAZI
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OBRIGADO!
СПАСИБО!
TACK!
THANK YOU!
DANKE
MERCI
GRACIAS
谢谢您
GRAZI