Microsoft Translator - Quick Start

After adding a Service Reference to the following URL http://api.microsofttranslator.com/v2/Soap.svc, You can easily translate text by following the sample below:

LanguageService service = new LanguageServiceClient();



string appId = ""; // Application ID required for using the Bing Web Service





// Get all available languages for translation

var langs = service.GetLanguagesForTranslate(appId);

foreach (var lang in langs)

    Console.WriteLine("Language: " + lang);



// We request up-to 5 french translations for the english work 'number'

var result = service.GetTranslations(appId, "number", "en", "fr", 5, null);

foreach (var tranlationMatch in result.Translations)

{

    // TranslatedText: The translated text

    Console.WriteLine("TranslatedText: " + tranlationMatch.TranslatedText);

    // MatchDegree: The system matches input sentences against the store, including inexact matches.

    // MatchDegree indicates how closely the input text matches the original text found in the store.

    // The value returned ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 is no similarity and 100 is an exact case sensitive match.

    Console.WriteLine("MatchDegree: " + tranlationMatch.MatchDegree);

    // Rating: Indicates the authority of the person making the quality decision. Machine Translation

    // results will have a rating of 5. Anonymously provided translations will generally have a rating of 1 to

    // 4, authoritatively provided translations will generally have a rating of 6 to 10.

    Console.WriteLine("Rating: " + tranlationMatch.Rating);

}