{"id":50744,"date":"2018-09-27T17:11:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T17:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=419682"},"modified":"2018-09-27T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T17:11:37","slug":"microsofts-intelligent-mobile-phone-keyboard-swiftkey-translates-as-you-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/27\/microsofts-intelligent-mobile-phone-keyboard-swiftkey-translates-as-you-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s intelligent mobile phone keyboard SwiftKey translates as you text"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/microsofts-intelligent-mobile-phone-keyboard-swiftkey-translates-as-you-text.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-container responsive-youtube oembed-container\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"ariaLabel_5bad8e4fa5468\" class=\"screen-reader-text\">YouTube Video<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Microsoft Translator, a technology that uses artificial intelligence to provide translations for more than 60 languages, has been integrated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/swiftkey?link=inblog\">SwiftKey for Android<\/a>, an intelligent keyboard for mobile devices, Microsoft announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to make it really easy for users to be able to translate as they type and to be able to translate incoming messages,\u201d said Colleen Hall, a senior product manager for SwiftKey in London. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/03\/microsoft-acquires-swiftkey-in-support-of-re-inventing-productivity-ambition?link=inblog\">Microsoft acquired SwiftKey<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The real-time translation feature is especially handy in the context of messaging with family, friends and colleagues who speak different languages, she noted. Once users tap the Microsoft Translator icon on the SwiftKey keyboard, the app translates as they type and translates incoming messages that users copy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do not have to leave the keyboard in order to do the translations,\u201d Hall explained.<\/p>\n<p>The app also remembers users\u2019 preferences, eliminating the need to scroll through the full list of the more than 60 available languages to select which languages to translate to and from each time the feature is engaged.<\/p>\n<p>The translation capability is available offline to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/swiftkey?link=inblog\">SwiftKey<\/a> users who have also downloaded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator?link=inblog\">Microsoft Translator<\/a> app, enabling translations of emails composed, for example, during an overseas flight on a business trip.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Translator is a part of <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cognitive-services?link=inblog\">Azure Cognitive Services<\/a>, a collection of AI algorithms. The translation feature is currently available for users of SwiftKey on Android devices, a user base that data indicates is global and highly multilingual, Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have always had a strong multilingual offering,\u201d noted Hall, \u201cand now we are bringing Translator to that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube Video Microsoft Translator, a technology that uses artificial intelligence to provide translations for more than 60 languages, has been integrated with SwiftKey for Android, an intelligent keyboard for mobile devices, Microsoft announced on Thursday. \u201cWe wanted to make it really easy for users to be able to translate as they type and to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[181,50],"class_list":["post-50744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-microsoft-translator","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}