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Microsoft has revealed the list of enhancements that were rolled out for Office 365 as part of the October update, which includes the improved translation engine for Word and launch of new tools.

Microsoft has added a new language that will support its speech translation service. Japanese will become the tenth language joining Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, amongst others.

Microsoft's Translator app on older versions of Windows and Windows Phone will no longer work from next month, while some users will have to download "new versions" to continue using the app.

Microsoft has been hard at work adding six new languages to Microsoft Translator, which the company says will unlock communication opportunities for 119 million Austronesian speakers around the world.

Struggling to communicate with your foreign friends? A US company could have just provided the answer with the Pilot, an earpiece and app which translates spoken languages in real time.

Microsoft's increasingly capable digital assistant can now instantly translate spoken or typed phrases from French, German, Italian and Spanish into dozens of other languages on Windows 10 devices.

With Microsoft's updated Translator app, you can speak into your wearable while your partner reads the translation on your phone seconds later. No more handing your phone back and forth.

Skype Translator, the near real-time voice translation tool from Microsoft, is turning one next week. And to celebrate it's adding support for a seventh spoken language: Brazilian Portuguese.

Microsoft's Skype Translator is a rather interesting technology, allowing for instant translation between up to six languages during calls. The feature is now universally available.

Microsoft has launched its 'Translator 10 Beta' that will allow users to translate languages on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. The app supports translations without the need for a data connection.

The Skype Translator app has just become more useful as it now supports near real-time spoken translations in French and German, bringing the total number of supported spoken languages up to six.

The preview of Skype Translator - which lets you speak to someone in one language while they read a near-real-time translation in another - is now available for anyone who wants to give it a go.

Skype's real-time translator tool now supports additional languages. The voice translator can now handle Italian and Mandarin on top of the already supported English and Spanish.

Microsoft has announced a $1 million partnership with the State Department's upcoming U.S. Diplomacy Center museum, which will combine Microsoft technology and hardware in a very unique way.

Google has apologized after tens of thousands of users signed a petition complaining that the company's translator software was spitting out offensive and inappropriate terms to describe gay people.

After experimenting for a long time, Twitter has finally decided to fully adopt Microsoft's Bing translation engine and allow users to translate tweets that are in different languages.

Microsoft has pushed a pretty significant update to its Windows Phone application, known as Translator, to include multiple new spoken languages to which the app can translate for you.

Famous actor and passionate technology fan George Takei, recently visited Microsoft in Seattle and got to try out Skype's upcoming real-time Translator as well as see a few other company projects.

From big Office changes and Xbox updates, to more bendy iPhones, Lollipop updates, cool concepts, creepy websites and Spanish Cortana, we look back at highlights from this week's top tech news.

After being unveiled at the beginning of the year Skype Translator is now almost ready for public preview. Sign-up to try its real-time voice and video translation capabilities.

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Microsoft's Bing Translator app for Windows 8 now includes speech support, allowing users to speak to their devices and hear a direct translation in "a native speaker's accent."

Facebook is beginning to roll out an inline translator powered by Bing, helping to remove the Facebook community's language barrier and allowing users to contribute their own translations.

Microsoft has kicked of MIX 2010 a little early today by announcing the availability of the Collaborative Translations Framework for Microsoft Translator. The technology combines the speed of automatic machine translation with the accuracy of human...

A Microsoft-sponsored open-source project is expected on Friday to release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard OpenDocument, or ODF. Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying...