How do I get my language supported?
Text Languages:
We add new languages periodically. In the process of adding a new language to the automatic translation system, the most important learning material is existing high-quality translations—the same text in two languages.
A significant amount, typically 1+ million words of this type of text, is needed to build a reasonable-quality automatic translation system for a particular language pair. Find out how automatic translation works at www.microsofttranslator.com/AT
If you have access to this type of text, or to a community committed to adding a new language, we offer free use of the Microsoft Translator Hub. Languages such as Hmong, Maja, Otomi, Welsh, and even Klingon have been added to the Microsoft Translator service by using the Hub.
To see an example of how a community can use the Microsoft Translator Hub you can watch this Hmong community video. https://youtu.be/UnROjeEHqDE
Speech Languages
Speech recognition is a totally different process than translation. It requires a whole new set of data (hundred of hours of recorded audios and their associated transcriptions) and trainings of our machine learning based engines to become available. Therefore, we cannot always deliver speech recognition as quickly as new supported languages become available for Microsoft Translator.
We continue to release improvements to the quality of our existing languages and to expand on our coverage of languages from around the world so that more and more people can talk to the Microsoft Translator in their own language.
Stay tuned on our blog (www.aka.ms/Translatorblog), Facebook page (www.facebook.com/microsofttranslator), or Twitter feed (www.twitter.com/MStranslator) for updates to our language coverage.
For the up-to-date list of supported language please go to www.microsoft.com/translator/languages.aspx
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Bosnian Image Translations - Bosnia
Trying to translate a screenshot but keep getting, "I can't translate that." Want to translate from Bosnian and Croatian to English.
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Add breton language - Brittany
Breton is a Celtic language (ISO 639-1 br) spoken by more than 200,000 people in Brittany, there are about 17,000 children every year who learn Breton in bilingual schools (French / Breton) or entirely in Breton. The Breton language has a large literature, ancient and modern texts, and many media (radio, TV shows ...).
Breton is a language very present on the web, many tools or site offer Breton like Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, Skype, Firefox, Wordpress, but Microsoft Translator does not yet support Breton and this causes many problems on the platforms like Twitter who use this Microsoft's tool.
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Russain (roman letter)
Add Russian translation (Roman letters)under the (Cyrillic letters). Because we cannot read it. By the way, Google Translator had done it.
1 vote -
furigana for Japanese kanji, please.
There's too many ways to pronounce each kanji, so furigaana would be very helpful
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English Canada
I Want to English translation. Canada
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Add Spanish (Mexico) to translator
Please add Spanish (Mexico) to Translator so we have more than just Spanish (Spain) to help meet the needs of all of our students from Mexico.
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I wish that Translator could transform English punctuation into Chinese punctuation as well as the rules of punctuation
For example, ", (with a blank)" into "，", and ". (with a blank)" into "。"
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please add bisaya and tagaylog into translation
unable to use it until its in there
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Add malayalam language - Kerala/India
There are millions of peoples speaks malayalam language in India and all around the world. But the malayalam language not supported in this App
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Zulu - isiZulu - South Africa
Zulu (isiZulu) is one of the official languages of South Africa and is a member of the Bantu/Nguni family of languages. It is spoken by 10 million-plus people mainly in the Kwa-Zulu Natal, Mpumalanga and Gauteng provinces.
Zulu (or as a native would say, isiZulu), is a Bantu language spoken by over 10 million people in South Africa, especially in the Kwa-Zulu Natal province. Zulu is a member of the Southeastern, or Nguni, subgroup of the Bantu group of the Benue-Congo branch of the *****-Congo language family.
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Khmer
My language is Khmer.
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2 votes
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Please add Romanian in Camera Translations.
Please add Romanian in Camera Translations.
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1 vote
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hmong
Would like speech recognition services for Cortana and such for Hmong language. White or Green Hmong dialects is fine using the Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Scripts that is being encoded by Unicode.
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2 votes
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Rongmei to english translator
Hi
Ngamxinlung g gonxon í would like to request to Add my New Rongmei language into english translator thank you.1 vote -
Please add British - United Kingdom
English as used in Great Britain, as distinct from that used elsewhere.
23 votes
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