Bing Translator, translating words with a BING!

Bing Translator (previously Live Search Translator and Windows Live Translator) is a service provided by Microsoft as part of its Bing services to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages. All translation pairs are powered by Microsoft Translator technology, developed by Microsoft Research, as its backend translation software. Two transliteration pairs (between Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified) are provided by Microsoft's Windows International team. Computer-related texts are translated by Microsoft's own syntax-based statistical machine translation technology.






In addition to standard text and web page translation, Bing Translator includes several additional features:
When translating an entire web page, or when the user selects "Translate this page" in Bing search results, the Bilingual Viewer will be shown, which allows users to browse the original web page text and translation in parallel, supported by synchronized highlights, scrolling, and navigation

Four Bilingual Viewer layouts are available:
Side by side
Top and bottom
Original with hover translation
Translation with hover original

Website owners can add a translation widget to their website for translating it into other languages supported by Bing Translator; this is done by inserting an HTML code snippet on the web page
Any-to-Any language translation pairs^[2]

Automatically detect the language of the text or website being translated^[2]
Ability to easily reverse the translation direction^[2]
The user can play back a spoken version of the translation through text-to-speech (not supported in every language)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Translator









Students can easily translate texts (like history texts, etc.) for easier understanding. It can also help students who converse with their classmates who speak in a different language (e.g. you have a japanese classmate, or a chinese classmate). Students can also use this online app in case you forgot a word's/phrase's translation. In addition, students can easily know what language it is with Bing Translator's Detect Language feature.

Although it may not help much in our everyday tasks, it can greatly help at times, especially when we need a translator. It translates texts fast unlike other translators so it has some edge above the others. We can evaluate this as a "quite useful" online application.


Rating: 7.3/10