Microsoft announced its expansion yesterday functionalτητας του Microsoft Translator in 100 languages in total.
The latest update to Microsoft Translator offers support for 12 new languages and dialects. Baskir, Divehi, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Slavo-Macedonian, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Mongolian (Traditional), Tatar, Tibetan, Turkmen, Uighur and Uzbek (Latin).
The 12 new languages are spoken by more than 84,6 millions άνθρωποι σε όλο τον κόσμο και έτσι πλέον μπορούν να χρησιμοποιήσουν το Microsoft Translator για να επικοινωνούν με άτομα από άλλες χώρες και αντίστροφα. Η Microsoft αναφέρει ότι η πρόοδος στις τεχνολογίες της τεχνητής intelligences allowed the company to expand the list of supported languages and thus help preserve "low demand" and endangered languages.
Microsoft Translator, for example, supports unusual dialects and languages, such as Inuktitut, spoken by some 40.000 people in Canada. Microsoft's efforts to expand its translation capabilities help not only ordinary users but also entrepreneurs in their commercial transactions.
Microsoft Translator is available through a variety of products and operating systems. Users can access the service from the web, from Android and iOS.
In Windows, however, Microsoft Translator is available only through the web interface. Although the site urges users to install Microsoft Translator for Windows, the latter is no longer available as Microsoft stopped its design a while ago.
You can read more about Microsoft Translator and its latest milestone in one blog post on the official website. The Android app is available from Google Play Store and for iOS from the App Store.