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Translator – Home Page

Text translation

  • Select your original and translation language from the “Languages” drop down box.
  • Type or paste your text in the “Enter text” box. Note: Text beyond 500 words will be truncated.
  • Click the "Translate Text" button.
Web page translation

  • Select your original and translation language from the “Languages” drop down box.
  • Enter the URL of a web page in the "Translate a web page" box.
  • Click the "Translate URL" button.
  • Once in the Bilingual Viewer, you can change viewing modes, target language, or URL by clicking on the controls in the menu bar.
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Bilingual Viewer (translated web pages)

If you click on a “Translate this page” link in the Live Search results or enter a web address in the web page translation box on translator.live.com, translations will be presented to you in the Bilingual Viewer, providing easy access to the original web page and its translation.

In the Bilingual Viewer you are able to:

  • Browse the original web page text and translation in parallel, supported by synchronized highlights, scrolling, and navigation.
  • Enter a new web page URL.
  • Select a translation language.
  • Choose between 4 bilingual layouts.
  • Exit the bilingual translation mode to see the original web page content.
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Html and Text. The viewer will not translate text on images, in PDFs, or in Flash graphics and animation. It may also not translate some dynamically generated text, such as in cascading menus.



You may either submit a one-click star rating on the Translator home page, or use the Feedback link in the footer of the home page and the Bilingual Viewer. If non-offensive text has resulted in an offensive translation by mistake, you may also report this by clicking on the link “Report offensive translations” which, like the star rating option, is available on the Translator home page after a translation has been submitted.



There are a number of reasons why we may not be able to translate content on a certain web page:

  • We do not transmit any https (security web pages) content to our translation server.
  • Some page implementations do not make text accessible for translation.
  • Flash and text on images cannot be translated.
  • The Bilingual Viewer uses frames to display translations to you. Pages containing scripts which enforce that a web page is not displayed in a frame will not be translated.
  • System requirements may not be met.



Browser Version Operating System
Internet Explorer 7.0 Windows Vista & Windows XP SP2
Internet Explorer 6.x Windows XP SP2 & Windows 2003
Firefox 2.0 Mac OS X 10.4 & Windows XP SP2



This link is available when Live Search has found a web page which is in a different language than the default (or chosen) language for your browser, and if we can offer a translation between the web page language and your default language.



  • You can select a translation language on the Translator (translator.live.com) page for your text or web page translations.
  • Once you see web page translations in the Bilingual Viewer, you may change your original and translation language.
  • The Language tab under Search Options (accessible through the “Options” link on the Live Search page) allows you to select a translation language into which pages are translated. This may be other than the default language of your browser.



Please visit the Microsoft Research Machine Translation Team Blog (English) for additional / current information.



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