Michal Addady reports for Fortune, “Quick and easy translation is right at your fingertips — or, more accurately, on your wrist — with the new Microsoft Translator for Apple Watch.”
“Almost all early adopters of the Apple Watch were satisfied with the product, and this feature only makes it better. All you have to do is speak into your watch and you’ll have access to translations in 50 different languages,” Addady reports. “The translator can speak any translated phrases for you that you can’t figure out how to pronounce. The app also allows you to save your most commonly used translations and recently used phrases for even quicker access.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple Watch just keeps on getting more and more useful with each passing day!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
Seems odd that this is coming from MS, but ok.
Microsoft is re-inventing themselves. It truly is a sight to be seen, and Apple had better be careful or Microsoft will steal back the limelight with all of the irons that they have in the fire.
… all of the irons that Microsoft has in the fire, that is.
Now THAT is really cool
(although I heard each translation ends with “Microsoft rules the Apple fools” but if you understood that you wouldn’t need the translator…)
Way cool, indeed. Anything to incentivize me away from the Google evil empire!
Apple relies on Microsoft to boost Apple Watch sales? Seriously?
“The translator can speak any translated phrases for you that you can’t figure out how to pronounce.” But can this software translate from another language to English? What’s the point of talking with someone if you cannot understand what they are saying, too?
Dumbass troll.
silverhawk, your intellectual capacity is as limited as your vocabulary.
Just shows you what Microsoft’s engineers can actually do without the marketing department fscking things up.
=:~)
Hey, translate this: “Microsoft is useless to mankind”. Thanx for nothin’.
The Watch is in its infancy stage……wait until Watch OS2 and then Watch2-OS3 ….!!!
Just getting started……….yeah, keep your FitBit in the dresser drawer!!
Embrace, extend, … – your wrist.
That is all.
Old animosities die hard, but in fact MS is probably Apple’s biggest ISV by a league or so in terms of both downloads and revenues…
….Mac, plus iOS and now Watch considered…. …and in fact have recently been delivering Mac versions before Win ones.
…and the quality of the offerings has generally been improving. As it better, given how their previous bastions of monopoly are collapsing.
Also, with both Gates and especially Ballmer out of the daily picture, a new corp culture is emerging under Nadella.
has anyone installed it yet? my voice to voice on apple watch isn’t working. not certain if that’s a feature set limited to handset? or just a bug?
PLEASE tell me MS is using something better than Bing Translator. OMG is it awful.
Go on MS Shills:
Ding-Me-Down for being honest.
MS Shills have been really on overdrive, MS must be paying a small fortune in “social consultancy”.
MS has not been on any of my Mac’s, iPads, iPhones and will not take up any space on my Apple Watch.
Sagte der Clown, die wie essig riecht!
A horse comes bearing gifts and you guys are kicking it. Shame on you!
Now if it could translate teenage into English, I would be VERY impressed!
I would not be too quick to jump on any Microsoft bandwagon. Windows 10, and especially Office 2016 for Mac are found wanting, as they always have been. Windows 10 is still XP under the hood, case in point most of the underlying system settings, and … the registry. Lipstick on a Pig. Office for Mac 2016 cannot even let you resize an image in Outlook, Excel is bloated with useless animations that get annoying pretty fast, and Powerpoint… well you get the picture. Office 2011 is so much better STILL.
This is not innovation. This is parasitic feasting on the dead rotting corpse that corporate American business still have to use because developing for the new is too costly, and bean counters just will not let that happen. Microsoft knows this. Their business model is to put lipstick on a pig, roll it out, have the droves call it innovation, and have the ignorant (and I do mean ignorant if not downright STUPID) masses consume.
Wow, they invented a universal translator. Yeah that will come in handy, in only a few situations in business, and I hope it helps those that need it.
Very cool! I like it! Another use for Apple Watch. The next few years are going to be fun to watch. Like the early days of iPhone