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

Great app, it gets the job done. I use the split screen and use my wireless earbuds and share with the other speaker just like the "timekettle" earbuds that are $500. Some improvements that could be made would be to fully support more languages like Haitian Creole. Also I would like for the user to be able to hold the button and release when done speaking. Lastly, please give an option to make the AUTO feature split screen to the user doesn't have to keep slipping the phone around.

Would be better if you can press and hold the button until you're done. That should be the 1st obvious standard. Botton freezes half the time and have to restart the app. Clearly pics up audio though which Google doesn't. Really don't want to provide feedback on the site when tech updates just always seem to get worse anyways. Hire better people.

This is an easy to use translator. I enjoy using it. I can copy & paste translations into messages or emails easily. The only language where I encountered any problems were Persian. It is great from English to Persian, but there are issues if a person speaks Farsi into the microphone. The translation to English is incomplete.

What's new

Bug fixes and general improvements.