Microsoft Translator

Microsoft Corporation

About this app

Microsoft Translator is a free, personal translation app for more than 70 languages, to translate text, voice, conversations, camera photos and screenshots. You can also download languages for offline translation for free to use when you travel.

• Text translation into over 70 languages*, for online and offline use
• Camera translation to translate text within photos and screenshots
• Voice translation to translate speech, and a split-screen mode for two participants having a bilingual conversation
• Multi-person conversation translation - connect your devices and have in-person conversations with up to 100 people across multiple languages
• Phrasebooks for verified translations and pronunciation guides to help you learn important phrases in foreign languages when you travel
• Look up alternate translations and meanings of a word to find the best translation to express yourself
• Download languages for offline use for when you travel without an internet connection
• Hear your translated phrase out loud to help you learn how to say the translation
• View transliterations (pronunciation guides) to help you pronounce the translation (includes Pinyin support for Chinese)
• Share your translations with other apps
• Pin and save your most frequent translations for later
• Translate text in other apps through context menu translation

Translator supports the following languages:  Afrikaans, Arabic, Arabic (Levantine), Bangla, Bosnian (Latin), Bulgarian, Cantonese (Traditional), Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, Estonian, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew , Hindi, Hmong Daw, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish (Central), Kurdish (Northern), Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Norwegian, Odia, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Queretaro Otomi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tahitian, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yucatec Maya.

Microsoft Translator is powered by cutting-edge technology used by Office, Bing, Skype, and Edge as well as by partners such as Adobe, LinkedIn and more. 

*Some features are not available in all languages.

Ratings and reviews

The voice detection seems often better than google translate. But the microphone mode is annoying as hell, constantly stopping the translation with "I haven't heard anything", when there is a moment of silence. It breaks the conversation, if you always have to check, if it is still capturing audio. Also, in contrast to google translate, no obvious backlog, and the screen clears all the time. The scrolling display of google translate is much better.

A great multifunctional app, including voice and image translation. (saving me, studying at a foreign university) The reason for the 4 stars is that sometimes it just. does. not. work. I paste something in and nothing happens. I then put in a simple word and if it responds at all it says "sorry, I cannot translate that" no amount of restarting helps. This apparently happens randomly and I have found no pattern. It is really annoying and would be very nice to fix!

This is better app, than the others I've used. However, there's only one small issue. And which is that, I cannot write very long texts. Because, I first have to write a couple of paragraphs, and send them out. I then have to go back to the translator, and finish my message. Also the translator's algorithms aren't translating the German text thoroughly either. So once these issues gets resolved, then I will upgrade the rating to five stars.

What's new

Bug fixes and general improvements.