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

I think this app is simple and easy to use. But it would be better if we can switch languages between two. For example, when translate between two languages, in Google translate application, there's a reciprocal arrow between them. So, we don't need to change the input language and then change the output language separately. By clicking that reciprocal arrow, two languages can automatically (from input language place to output language place). In this application, I don't see that setting 😔.

Misreads Jpn kanji - e.g., keeps recognising 殻 (shell) as 般 which it then proceeds to translate as "general". Naver's Papago sometimes does the same if the image quality is poor (and Microsoft's photos somehow always come out a lot clearer in the same circumstances), but it also shows you which kanji it recognised the source image as, so you can notice the mistake & retake the photo, whereas Microsoft just shows what it thinks the correct translation is, so you can't really check what's wrong.

I don't know why, but the translator camera doesn't work. I take the picture, and it says: "no text detected," when there's clearly words there. So you should fix that because without this feature, the app feels incomplete. Also, you should add the option that lets you copy the translated text to your computer. It is really helpful for some people.

What's new

Bug fixes and general improvements.