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General availability: Custom Translator—May new features, improvements and bug fixes
Review the Microsoft Custom Translator new features, improvements, bug fixes, and new/refreshed models for May 2021.
January 2021
Azure Cognitive Services Translator - Inuktitut language text translation now available
Translate to or from Inuktitut into any of the more than 70 languages available in Translator.
November 2020
Custom Translator V2 upgrade (full trainability) is generally available
Custom Translator completed the full V2 platform upgrade to deliver an even bigger translation quality gain than before. Customers can now build custom models with all document types (Training, Testing, Tuning, Phrase Dictionary, and Sentence Dictionary) using full text documents, like Office documents, PDFs, HTML, and plain text.
September 2020
Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text— Assamese language now available
Translator Text now supports the Assamese language.
Custom Translator—September new features, improvements and bug fixes
Review the Microsoft Custom Translator new features, improvements, bug fixes, and new/refreshed models for September 2020.
August 2020
Version 2 of Translator is retiring on 24 May 2021
Target retirement date: May 24, 2021
Migrate to version 3 of Translator
Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text— New languages now available
Translator Text now supports the Odia, Dari, Pashto, Central Kurdish and Northern Kurdish languages.
Custom Translator upgrade and Regional data residency
Custom Translator team is being upgraded to V2 phase-1 to take advantage of the state-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT) architecture available in Microsoft Translator. This architecture powers translation for Microsoft services such as Office 365, Teams, Speech Services, Bing.com, and Translator, along with other services. Data residency support is also being enabled to meet corporate data security, data privacy, and regulatory requirements to keep customer data in the Europe region.
March 2020
Translator encryption of data at rest with customer managed keys
Encrypt customer data stored at rest by default, with no additional action required from you, using Microsoft Custom Translator.
February 2020
Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text—Five new languages added
Translator Text now supports five new languages—Irish, Punjabi, Malayalam, Kannada, and Portuguese (Portugal).
November 2019
Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text— Maori language now available
Target availability: Q4 2019
Translator Text now supports the Maori language.
December 2018
Custom Translation capability of Text Translator
Announcing general availability of custom translation capability in Translator Text Cognitive Service
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