谷歌小心!微軟推出全新翻譯應用
Watch out, Google. Microsoft now has its own translator app available for a variety of devices.
谷歌，長點心吧。微軟公司已經爲多種設備研發出了翻譯應用。Microsoft Translator is a new app designed by the software giant for iOS and Android users. The app supports phones and tablets as well as the Apple Watch and smartwatches that run Android Wear.
微軟翻譯是微軟公司爲IOS以及安卓用戶開發的新應用。該應用可用於手機、平板電腦，蘋果手錶以及裝有安卓穿戴系統的智能手錶。You can type or speak the word or phrase you want translated. In response, the app shows you the translated text on the screen and then speaks it for you. Microsoft Translator supports 50 different languages, including English, Chinese, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and is the first expansion of Microsoft's translation app to the world of iOS and Android mobile devices and smartwatches.
你可以將需要翻譯的東西通過鍵盤輸入或語音輸入。應用顯示屏上會顯示翻譯好的內容，並將其讀出。微軟翻譯支持50種不同的語言，其中包括英語、漢語、法語、希伯來語、意大利語、日語、西班牙語以及俄語。微軟應用的適用範圍首次擴展到iOS以及安卓設備和智能手錶。
With the new app, Microsoft is entering into Google territory -- the search giant has long offered translation services on the Web as well as for iOS and Android. Google's Translate app is more advanced in one respect. It lets you point your mobile device's camera at a sign, book or other object with text on it and watch as that text is automatically translated into the language of your choice. But Google's Translate app supports only 27 languages. Google does not make a version of its app for Android Wear smartwatches, offering an advantage to Microsoft.
微軟研發該項新的應用之後，其研究領域與谷歌就有了交集。搜索巨頭谷歌公司一直在網頁、iSO和安卓系統提供翻譯服務。谷歌的翻譯應用一方面上更爲先進。它可以通過手機相機識別某一標識、書籍或者其他物體上的文本，並自動將其翻譯成選擇的語言。但谷歌翻譯只支持27中語言。谷歌並未爲裝有安卓穿戴系統的智能手錶開發特定版本的應用，將這點優勢拱手讓與微軟公司。Microsoft Translator provides several benefits to Apple Watch wearers. You can speak directly into your watch to get an instant translation. The app can correctly pronounce the phrase for you through your watch. And all your translations are synchronized between your watch and your phone.
微軟翻譯爲佩戴蘋果手錶的人提供幾大福利。你可以將需要翻譯的東西以語音形式輸入手錶，即可得到翻譯結果。該應用可以通過手錶以正確的讀音輸出。手錶上的翻譯還可同步至手機。Microsoft Translator for the Apple Watch and Android Wear watches is a brand new companion app, a spokesman for Microsoft said. The app does use the same Microsoft Translator cloud service that powers the Windows apps, Skype Translator and Bing translator site.
微軟發言人表示，爲蘋果手錶以及裝有安卓穿戴系統的智能手錶所開發的微軟翻譯是個全新的同類應用。該應用也採用了支持Windows各項應用、Skype翻譯以及必應翻譯的微軟翻譯雲。How is the app scoring among users? Quite well. At Apple's App store, only 13 people have reviewed it so far, but collectively they've given it a score of 4.5 stars out of 5.
那麼用戶對該應用的評價如何呢？相當不錯，到目前爲止，只有13人在蘋果應用商店對其進行了評價，總的來說該應用獲得了4.5星（滿分爲5星）。In my brief use of Microsoft Translate, I found the app quick and simple to use. You can easily switch between typing or speaking the words you want translated. You can speak or type your phrase and see or hear the translation in one language. The app did not offer spoken translations in certain languages, such as Hebrew, Thai and Vietnamese.
我剛開始使用微軟翻譯，發現該應用操作簡單快速。可以迅速切換輸入模式，輸入需要翻譯的內容。可以將短語以文字或語音的格式輸入，得到相應的翻譯。該應用不提供一些語言的語音翻譯，比如希伯來語、泰國語以及越南語。The Microsoft Translator service supports "text to text" translation for over 50 languages, the Microsoft spokesman said. The service provides text to speech capability for a subset of those languages. Microsoft continues to work on adding more languages that do support spoken translation, the spokesman added.
微軟發言人表示，微軟翻譯支持50種語言之間的文本翻譯。該應用提供爲其中一部分語言提供語音翻譯服務。發言人表示，微軟公司將繼續努力，以便爲更多語言提供語音翻譯服務。
