The Microsoft Translator is a free tool that is available online through a browser, as a mobile application, and as a Microsoft Outlook add-on. The tool implements research-proven techniques to provide equal access to multilingual communication for individuals, companies, and education. Translator’s features make it particularly useful for language learners, deaf or hard-of-hearing users, and travelers.
The tool will translate conversations with captions, web pages and application content, as well as text content in the pictures and screenshots in more than 70 languages. Translator provides an option to download data for offline use and can serve as a budget solution in the areas with no or limited access to broadband Internet.
The Microsoft Translator is a powerful tool that can help teachers to facilitate cross-language understanding in and outside of the classroom. A teacher can use Translator with students whose native language is not English, students with hearing impairments, dyslexia, and communication difficulties. A teacher can use Translator with parents on such occasions as the school enrollment process, parent-teacher conferences, or daily school agendas.
A teacher can use Translator for the following applications:
The Microsoft Translator for Education website provides free resources and how-to guides for live captioning and translation in educational settings.
Microsoft Translator tool is accessible across a variety of devices including laptops, tablets, phones, including Macintosh devices. The tool’s application data can be downloaded to use offline on these devices. The Microsoft Translator application for Windows OS is not currently offered.
Microsoft Office programs and Microsoft Translator tool send and receive translations using a secure SSL encryption. By default, Microsoft Office is a no-trace application. With no-trace, no translated content is being logged on the Microsoft Translator tool, submitted text is not used to develop the Translator service, and there is no record of client content in Microsoft data centers. More information regarding the privacy policy is available here.