Today Microsoft released an updated version of the Translator App for Windows Phone powered by the same world-class technology behind Bing Translator.

Download the Translator App on Windows Phone Marketplace: (http://aka.ms/xq2c41)

Microsoft Translator features include:

• Easy snippet and web page translation on Bing Translator
• Powerful yet simple API that allows translation functionality to be easily incorporated into any scenario
• Support for over 37 languages
• Instant in-place translation with the free translation widget for no-code addition of translation functionality
• Collaborative Translation Framework offers social features so native speakers can improve in-context translations

Microsoft Translator provides a set of powerful but simple-to-use APIs that can help customers accomplish cross-language communication and language translation goals, and consumers experience high quality language translation.  It is a state-of-the-art statistical machine translation system translating between any of the supported languages, and powering millions of translations every day across Microsoft products like Bing, Office, Internet Explorer and external products like Facebook, Trip Advisor, eBay etc. For more technical information about Microsoft Translator, please visit http://api.microsofttranslator.com.

If you would like to sign-up for the translator API for use in your own scenario – you can do so via the Windows Azure Marketplace.