Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Bing Powers Twitter Translation

Understand that foreign Tweet will soon get instant translation, thanks to technology from Bing. Microsoft said over the weekend that the company has worked with Twitter on a new update to Twitter for Windows Phone, which will let users instantly translate tweets in different languages. The new capability works on Windows Phone only, and is an offshoot of the Microsoft Translator API, which lets any Windows Phone developer provide instant translation in their apps. It also appears that the translation feature, powered by Bing, is showing up for some users on foreign language tweets via Twitter's website.