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  • Bing Translator App Updated With Speech Input

    Here’s a scenario – you find yourself in Rome after a week long party across Europe that has left you lost and alone. You can book a room for the night, but you don’t know any Italian. Good thing you have your Windows Phone on your person with an updated Bing Translator app.

    Bing announced on Wednesday that it has updated its Bing Translator App with a new speech input function. The new feature allows you to speak into the mic of your phone and have the phone instantly translate what you said into the language of the locals. It will even play back the translated words in a native accent. Of course, this works in reverse as well for when you need to know what the other person in saying.

    Here’s what it will look like:

    Bing Translator App Updated With Speech Input

    On top of speech input, the Bing Translator App can now translate the printed word. It works in both portrait and landscape mode. You just need to scan the text and the app will automatically translate it.

    The final update is exclusively for Windows Phone 8 and it lets users download language packs for offline use. You never know when you’ll be stuck in Italy without an Internet connection so it’s probably best to download the language pack directly to your phone today.

    You can grab the latest Bing Translator app for Windows Phone 8 here and Windows 8.1 here.

    Image via Windows Store

  • Bing Translator App Now On Windows Phone 8

    Microsoft has made some pretty impressive strides in translation over the past few years, and the company’s research has been implemented into the Bing Translator App. Microsoft boasts that it’s one of the most popular translation apps on Windows Phone 7 devices, and now Windows Phone 8 users can see how good it is for themselves.

    The Bing Team announced that the Bing Translator App is available on Windows Phone 8 devices. The app has all of the features that you’ve come to expect from any translation app including augmented reality translation, speech/text translation, and an offline mode for when you’re traveling in areas without service.

    What does the app bring to Windows Phone 8 users? The Bing Team says that the app now features a new translator lens that will bring up the AR translation functionality immediately. Just like in previous incarnations of WIndows Phone, the Bing Translator App also retains the word of the day live tile for those who are fond of linguistics.

    Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the team as they were building the new version of the Bing Translator app.

    You can grab the Bing Translator App from the Windows Phone 8 store right now. There’s no Google Translate app on Windows Phone 8 yet, but did you really expect there to be?