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 only use for AUDIO. The camera feature is terrible, but the audio can't be beat by anything else I've found. I do wish it would allow ME to decide when to stop listening. The very short pause time it takes to auto turn off is annoying. Any pause in the speaker's conversation makes it think the speaker is done instead of just thinking of adding emphasis. I end up losing key parts of conversations because the app has decided to start talking to me. EDIT: It got worse on Android.

Beats the hell out of Google translate. Much better at auto detection, it's playback feature is really neat. At first it does it at full speed and then Itll keep doing it slower and slower every time you play it back, so if you're trying to learn the language, it really helps so you could try to sit there and spell it out. But also hear it how it would sound spoke nativley.Overall awesome app, no complaints so far. Lotsa extras. A chat history(boss)Also seems more accurate than Google translate.

Seems pretty fast but missing the main feature needed. There is no continuous transcribe to another language feature like in Google Translate. So in presentations, speeches, sermons etc there is no way for it to continuously translate what the speaker is saying. It pauses and thus will miss half of what is said. It's more designed for conversations.

What's new

Bug fixes and general improvements.