Sunday, 22 June 2014

Twitter Provide Translators For iOS Applications

Media micro-blogging site Twitter has just introduced a new feature to its iOS version of the application, ie, Bing Translate, which is supported by a team of Microsoft. Twitter app on the Apple device will now have the ability to translate tweets posted in a language that is different from the default, then you will see a pop-up to be clicked if the user wants the translation of the tweet.
However, similar to the existing machine translation in today's virtual world, they do not work like a human translator, who knows all the nuances and different contexts being discussed. However, Bing Translate seems pretty good in keeping the context, but when talking about the diction or choice of words, they are not always the most accurate all the time.
Given this relatively new feature, so the user should be wise in critiquing their performance. With some improvement over time, hopefully more stable feature and change for the better in the future, and is immediately available in other platforms.
Twitter is actually first in order to work with Microsoft's Bing Translate to introduce Windows Phone application. But it seems a good omen came to bring the machine translation in the iOS platform first, to be addressed further in improving the service.

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