Microsoft is giving Android device owners a way to
translate text messages in several languages, even if their smartphone cannot
connect to the Internet. The latest update to the Microsoft Translator app adds
a new engine that includes this new offline translation feature, with the help
of downloadable language packs.
Microsoft says:
Deep Neural Networks,
also known as Deep Learning, is a state-of-the-art Machine Learning technology
that has been in use for almost a year by the popular Microsoft Translator
cloud service to deliver high-quality translations to the many experiences that
it powers — Microsoft Translator apps, Skype Translator and
Bing.com/translator. By bringing this technology to offline translations on
your mobile device, you will have access to the highest-quality offline
translation provided. Our standard tests have shown that it is comparable to
the translations you get when connected to the Internet, and significantly
better than any offline translation experiences available previously.
The offline translation language packs include Chinese
Simplified, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and
Vietnamese. More language packs will be released for Microsoft Translator in
the coming months. The app can still perform text translations in 50 different
languages while online, along with speech translations for several languages.
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