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The language barrier may soon be breached if Microsoft Translator is as good as it purports to be. On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled plans to release a new mobile app before the end of 2016 that will ...

Here’s how to translate text from one language to another in Outlook, Word, and Excel — and how to transform spoken words into real-time captions in another language with PowerPoint. I once worked for ...

After the machine translation AI is done conjuring up a result, the app's speech synthesizer reads it out loud on the fly. Microsoft's Translator app is available for Android, iOS and Amazon Fire ...

Until recently, a multinational company looking to help customers around the world book international travel would have had to build separate chatbots from scratch to converse in French, Hindi, ...

Like many translation apps, Microsoft Translator has only used AI to decipher phrases while you have an internet connection. That's not much help if you're on a vacation in a place where mobile data ...

A Microsoft-sponsored initiative last week officially released a plug-in that converts the software vendor's Open XML (extensible markup language) file formats in Word to OpenDocument Format (ODF).

Microsoft says it has built the first machine that can translate parts of news stories from Chinese to English as well as humans can. Researchers have toiled to find a way to level up machine ...

A lot of what Microsoft is showing at its Build conference this week is squarely aimed at developers. But in the barrage of news about Azure, Visual Studio and .NET, the company also showed off a ...