1. Globalizing apps and UX with Microsoft Translator text and speech translation API
Kelly Altom
Program Manager

2. What is Microsoft Translator?
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What is Microsoft Translator?
Cet outil de traduction est un moyen facile d'étendre la portée de vos contenus internes et externes.
Client app or webpage
此翻译工具是可以轻松地扩展您的内部和外部内容的覆盖范围。
WEB API
Microsoft Translator….
Is an automatic machine translation cloud API (REST)
Text translation: ~60 languages
Speech translation: 9 speech to speech languages. All speech languages to ~60 text Languages
Customization of translation engines (text only)
Priced by monthly volume
Text by millions of characters per month
Speech by hours per month
Microsoft Translator powers…
Bing.com/translator webpage, Edge add-in
Translator mobile apps: Windows, Android and iOS
Office: Word, Outlook - SharePoint, Yammer, Visual Studio
Skype Translator and Meeting Broadcast
Etsy, Twitter, Ask.com, Rakuten etc…
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3. Cognitive Services Cortana Intelligence
Microsoft Build 2016
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Cortana Intelligence
Microsoft Cognitive Services preview
Vision
Computer Vision | Emotion | Face | Video | Content Moderator
Speech
Custom Recognition | Speaker Recognition | Speech
Cognitive Services
Give your solutions a human side
Language
Bing Spell Check | Language Understanding | Linguistic Analysis | Text Analytics | Web Language Model | Translator Text and Speech
Knowledge
Academic Knowledge | Entity Linking | Knowledge Exploration | Recommendations
Search
Bing Auto Suggest | Bing Image Search | Bing News Search | Bing Video Search | Bing Web Search
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4. Text Translation API – Key Scenarios
Microsoft Translator Text API ~60 languages allows users to reach more than 95% of world's GDP.
Readiness and Training
Provide sales, marketing, technical or human resources content and training in multiple languages to your organization.
Internal Communications
Foster communication among employees by enabling multi-lingual information sharing over instant messaging, or on team or community sites.
Customer Support
Integrate automatic translation in your pre-existing customer support workflows.
Community and Social
Multiply the value of your customer forums, consumer content, or user groups with scalable cost-effective multi-language support.
Web Localization
Localize your website by combining human and automatic translation.
Multi-Lingual Business Intelligence
Empower comprehensive analysis of Multi-Lingual Business Intelligence for BDM needs.

5. Demo Bing Translator Document Translator Interactive Documentation
Microsoft Connect 2016
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Demo
Bing Translator
Document Translator
Interactive Documentation
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6. Speech Translation API – Key Scenarios
Translator Speech API is the world’s only end-to-end cloud-based automatic speech translation service.
In-person and remote communications
Integrate the speech translation API into your communication apps and infrastructure.
Customer Support
Integrate speech translation into your call center infrastructure by extending language coverage to 24x7 or providing additional languages, and adding extra localized support during peak times.
Real-time Presentation Translation
Provide real time subtitling of your presentations or classes in 50+ languages.
Multi-Lingual Business Intelligence
Analyze your audio files by translating them into searchable text for business decision makers.
Media Subtitling
Provide automatic close captioning and subtitling in 50+ languages for your live or recorded media events: webcasts, broadcasts....
Multi-Lingual AI Interactions
Enable natural multi-lingual interaction with your AI powered solutions by integrating Speech translation in the experience.

7. Demo Speech Translator Code Walkthrough Microsoft Connect 2016
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Demo
Speech Translator
Code Walkthrough
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8. UWP-SpeechTranslate-App
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private byte[] GetWaveHeader() {
var channels = (short)1;
var sampleRate = 16000;
var bitsPerSample = (short)16;
var extraSize = 0;
var blockAlign = (short)(channels * (bitsPerSample / 8));
var averageBytesPerSecond = sampleRate * blockAlign;
using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
BinaryWriter writer = new BinaryWriter(stream, Encoding.UTF8);
writer.Write(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("RIFF"));
writer.Write(0);
writer.Write(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("WAVE"));
writer.Write(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("fmt "));
writer.Write((int)(18 + extraSize)); // wave format length
writer.Write((short)1);// PCM
writer.Write((short)channels);
writer.Write((int)sampleRate);
writer.Write((int)averageBytesPerSecond);
writer.Write((short)blockAlign);
writer.Write((short)bitsPerSample);
writer.Write((short)extraSize);
writer.Write(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("data"));
stream.Position = 0;
byte[] buffer = new byte[stream.Length];
stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
return buffer; }
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9. Continued
unsafe internal static void SendAudioFrameNative(AudioFrame frame, DataWriter writer) {
using (var buffer = frame.LockBuffer(AudioBufferAccessMode.Read))
using (IMemoryBufferReference reference = buffer.CreateReference())
byte* dataInBytes;
uint capacityInBytes;
// Get the buffer from the AudioFrame
((IMemoryBufferByteAccess)reference).GetBuffer(out dataInBytes, out capacityInBytes);
// convert the bytes into float
float* dataInFloat = (float*)dataInBytes;
for (int i = 0; i < capacityInBytes / sizeof(float); i++)
// convert the float into a double byte for 16 bit PCM
writer.WriteInt16(FloatToInt16(dataInFloat[i])); }

10. How to use Text Translator and Speech Translator API

11. Resources Sample Apps on Github API documentation About Translator
Bing Translator
Text Translation API
Speech Translation API