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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Hebrew - Camera translations (OCR)
recognize Hebrew in pictures
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Mauritian Creole - Mauritius
There is Haitian creole but my relatives are mostly speak Mauritian creole. Mauritian Creole is broken French and used in Mauritius.
Mauritian Creole or Morisyen is a French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius. In addition to the French base of the language, there are also a number of words from English and from the many African and South Asian languages that have been spoken on the island.
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Arabic vowels support
Support for Arabic vowels is needed, changing a vowel somewhere in a word can change what it means
Example:
مُنَظَم: organized
مُنَظِم: organizer
A small change in the vowel of the letter before the last letter changed what the word means66 votes -
23 votes
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Bulgarian offline for Windows
Need Bulgaria offline packag
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Gallego - Galician
Teneis que agregar el idioma gallego, porque es un idioma muy hablado y no aparece en su traductor, sin embargo si aparece el catalán.
Además el traductor de google si cuenta con el idioma gallego, y fue añadido al mismo tiempo que el catalan y el euskera hace ya muchos años.9 votes -
Klingon - Speech
Voice translation in klingon would be a great and fun feature
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Indonesian - offline for Windows
please add offline translation for Indonesian Language
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4 votes
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Arabic dialects
You should have multiple dialects for Arabic
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Odia
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା
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1 vote
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It would be great to add support for English to Armenian, Armenian To English, Russian to Armenian, Armenian to Russian language pairs.
It would be great to add support for English to Armenian, Armenian To English, Russian to Armenian, Armenian to Russian language pairs. There is plenty of existing high-quality translations available, so I think lack of resources wouldn't be a problem.
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Cantonese offline
Please add Cantonese as a downloadable language
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Basque
Basque is a language with no known linguistic relatives spoken by about 660,000 people mainly in the Basque country (Euskal Herria) in the north of Spain and the south west of France.
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Thai Image Translation - Thailand
Hello, Please add translation Thai to english from image (photo, or real time).
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Latin
I posted at May 16, 2015 1:18 AM on "Machine Translation and Language Tools > Microsoft Translator Developer & Web Master Support":
"When I saw Bing translator support in Kindle for iPhone, which I use for almost all of my recreational reading, the first thing I did was download a sample from The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. This brilliant novel dazzled me years ago when I tried to read it but ultimately defeated me with its long, untranslated Latin passages. I'm not kidding, I really was giddy with excitement at the prospect of reading it and emulating…
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2 votes
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Marathi - Maharashtra - Goa - India
Add marathi language
Marathi is an Indian language spoken predominantly by the Marathi people of Maharashtra. It is the official language and co-official language in the Maharashtra and Goa states of Western India, respectively, and is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.72 votes
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