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

it's easy to use. the home page flips through hello in many languages . an easy menu asks if user wants to translate text, oral, or a conversation, or even writing on a graphic. the translations could be better but I've not used it enough to judge much. As with most apps, the translator assumes 2 words spelled and even pronounced similarly in French & English mean the same. Often this is not correct.

Microsoft Translator is marred by inconsistent translations, especially for complex languages and technical jargon. The interface is cluttered and unintuitive, making navigation cumbersome. Offline functionality is limited, and frequent updates disrupt user experience. Compared to competitors like Google Translate, it lacks accuracy and real-time capabilities. Improvement in translation quality, user interface simplicity, and offline functionality is essential for better user satisfaction.

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.