Microsoft highlights quality updates in latest Translator update

[harlan4096]

Microsoft Translator has never been my go-to application when it comes to machine translation. I always felt that Google Translator did a better job in turning foreign text into something that resembled something that I could understand.

Google Translate is far from perfect, however, and DeepL replaced it for the languages that it supports when it was introduced.

Microsoft released a Microsoft Translator update yesterday that improves overall quality by up to 11% for Chinese and German translations from and to English according to the company.

Based on human evaluations using industry standard test sets, we are seeing up to 11% improvement in overall quality.

The next-generation Neural Machine Translation technology of Microsoft Translator promises better translations. The changes are available on all platforms including on Bing Translate, the Translator application, and the Translator API.

Full reading: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/16/micros...or-update/