Custom Translator release notes
This page presents the latest feature, improvement, bug fix, and known issue release notes for Custom Translator service.
2023-December release
December 2023 model updates
Added neural dictionary support for improved translation quality when a phrase dictionary is used.
The current supported neural dictionary language pairs are listed in the following table:
| Source | Target |
|---|---|
Chinese Simplified (zh-cn) |
English (en-us) |
English (en-us) |
Chinese Simplified (zh-cn) |
English (en-us) |
French (fr-fr) |
English (en-us) |
German (de-de) |
English (en-us) |
Italian (it-it) |
English (en-us) |
Japanese (ja-jp) |
English (en-us) |
Korean (ko-kr) |
English (en-us) |
Polish (pl-pl) |
English (en-us) |
Russian (ru-ru) |
English (en-us) |
Spanish (es-es) |
English (en-us) |
Swedish (sv-se) |
French (fr-fr) |
English (en-us) |
German (de-de) |
English (en-us) |
Italian (it-it) |
English (en-us) |
Japanese (ja-jp) |
English (en-us) |
Korean (ko-kr) |
English (en-us) |
Polish (pl-pl) |
English (en-us) |
Russian (ru-ru) |
English (en-us) |
Spanish (es-es) |
English (en-us) |
Swedish (sv-se) |
English (en-us) |
2023-November release
November 2023 model updates
- The current supported language pairs, including direct language models, are listed in the following tables.
Direct language models
| Source Direct | Target Direct |
|---|---|
Chinese Simplified (zh-hans) |
German (de-de) |
Chinese Simplified (zh-hans) |
Korean (ko-kr) |
Dutch (nl-nl) |
French (fr-fr) |
French (fr-fr) |
Dutch (nl-nl) |
French (fr-fr) |
German (de-de) |
French (fr-fr) |
Italian (it-it) |
German (de-de) |
Chinese Simplified (zh-hans) |
German (de-de) |
French (fr-fr) |
German (de-de) |
Italian (it-it) |
German (de-de) |
Portuguese Portugal (pt-pt) |
German (de-de) |
Spanish (es-es) |
Italian (it-it) |
French (fr-fr) |
Italian (it-it) |
German (de-de) |
Korean (ko-kr) |
Chinese Simplified (zh-hans) |
Spanish (es-es) |
German (de-de) |
To/From English language models
| Source | Target |
|---|---|
Amharic (am-et) |
English (en-us) |
Arabic (ar-sa) |
English (en-us) |
Catalan (ca-es) |
English (en-us) |
Chinese Traditional (zh-hant) |
English (en-us) |
English (en-us) |
Bulgarian (bg-bg) |
English (en-us) |
Catalan (ca-es) |
English (en-us) |
Chinese Traditional (zh-hant) |
English (en-us) |
Dutch (nl-nl) |
English (en-us) |
Estonian (et-ee) |
English (en-us) |
Finnish (fi-fi) |
English (en-us) |
Icelandic (is-is) |
English (en-us) |
Kannada (kn-in) |
English (en-us) |
Lingala (ln) |
English (en-us) |
Marathi (mr-in) |
English (en-us) |
Punjabi (pa-in) |
English (en-us) |
Romanian (ro-ro) |
English (en-us) |
Shona (sn-latn-zw) |
English (en-us) |
Slovenian (sl-si) |
English (en-us) |
Turkish (tr-tr) |
Finnish (fi-fi) |
English (en-us) |
Hebrew (he-il) |
English (en-us) |
Icelandic (is-is) |
English (en-us) |
Kannada (kn-in) |
English (en-us) |
Lingala (ln) |
English (en-us) |
Nyanja (nya) |
English (en-us) |
Punjabi (pa-in) |
English (en-us) |
Romanian (ro-ro) |
English (en-us) |
Shona (sn-latn-zw) |
English (en-us) |
Slovak (sk-sk) |
English (en-us) |
Slovenian (sl-si) |
English (en-us) |
Ukrainian (uk-ua) |
English (en-us) |
2023-June release
June 2023 new features and model updates
Custom Translator platform upgrade
🆕 Model Upgrade Wizard is now available in Workspace settings to help guide customers through the V1-model-upgrade-to-new-platform process. For more information, see Custom Translator platform upgrade.
Custom Translator copy model
🆕 Copy Model is now available in Model details to enable the copying of models from one workspace to another. This feature enables model lifecycle management (development → testing → production) and/or scaling. For more information, see Copy a custom model.
Restrict access to published models
Published model security is now enhanced and restricted access is now enabled within Workspace settings to allow only linked Translator resources to request translation.
June language model updates
Current supported language pairs are listed in the following table. For higher quality, we encourage you to retrain your models accordingly. For more information, see Language support.
| Source Language | Target Language |
|---|---|
Czech (cs-cz) |
English (en-us) |
Danish (da-dk) |
English (en-us) |
| German (de-de) | English (en-us) |
Greek (el-gr) |
English (en-us) |
English (en-us) |
Arabic (ar-sa) |
English (en-us) |
Czech (cs-cz) |
English (en-us) |
Danish (da-dk) |
English (en-us) |
German (de-de) |
English (en-us) |
Greek (el-gr) |
English (en-us) |
Spanish (es-es) |
English (en-us) |
French (fr-fr) |
English (en-us) |
Hebrew (he-il) |
English (en-us) |
Hindi (hi-in) |
English (en-us) |
Croatian (hr-hr) |
English (en-us) |
Hungarian (hu-hu) |
English (en-us) |
Indonesian (id-id) |
English (en-us) |
Italian (it-it) |
English (en-us) |
Japanese (ja-jp) |
English (en-us) |
Korean (ko-kr) |
English (en-us) |
Lithuanian (lt-lt) |
English (en-us) |
Latvian (lv-lv) |
English (en-us) |
Norwegian (nb-no) |
English (en-us) |
Polish (pl-pl) |
English (en-us) |
Portuguese (pt-pt) |
English (en-us) |
Russian (ru-ru) |
English (en-us) |
Slovak (sk-sk) |
English (en-us) |
Swedish (sv-se) |
English (en-us) |
Ukrainian (uk-ua) |
English (en-us) |
Vietnamese (vi-vn) |
English (en-us) |
Chinese Simplified (zh-cn) |
Spanish (es-es) |
English (en-us) |
French (fr-fr) |
English (en-us) |
Hindi (hi-in) |
English (en-us) |
Hungarian (hu-hu) |
English (en-us) |
Indonesian (id-id) |
English (en-us) |
Italian (it-it) |
English (en-us) |
Japanese (ja-jp) |
English (en-us) |
Korean (ko-kr) |
English (en-us) |
Norwegian (nb-no) |
English (en-us) |
Dutch (nl-nl) |
English (en-us) |
Polish (pl-pl) |
English (en-us) |
Portuguese (pt-br) |
English (en-us) |
Russian (ru-ru) |
English (en-us) |
Swedish (sv-se) |
English (en-us) |
Thai (th-th) |
English (en-us) |
Turkish (tr-tr) |
English (en-us) |
Vietnamese (vi-vn) |
English (en-us) |
Chinese Simplified (zh-cn) |
English (en-us) |
2022-November release
November 2022 improvements and fixes
Custom Translator stable GA v2.0 release
Custom Translator version v2.0 is generally available and ready for use in your production applications.
Upload history is added to the workspace, next to Projects and Documents tabs.
November language model updates
- Language pairs are listed in the following table. We encourage you to retrain your models accordingly for higher quality.
| Source Language | Target Language |
|---|---|
Chinese Simplified (zh-hans) |
English (en-us) |
| Chinese Traditional (zh-Hant) | English (en-us) |
| Czech (cs) | English (en-us) |
| Dutch (nl) | English (en-us) |
English (en-us) |
Chinese Simplified (zh-hans) |
English (en-us) |
Chinese Traditional (zh-Hant) |
English (en-us) |
Czech (cs) |
English (en-us) |
Dutch (nl) |
English (en-us) |
French (fr) |
English (en-us) |
German (de) |
English (en-us) |
Italian (it) |
English (en-us) |
Polish (pl) |
English (en-us) |
Romanian (ro) |
English (en-us) |
Russian (ru) |
English (en-us) |
Spanish (es) |
English (en-us) |
Swedish (sv) |
| German (de) | English (en-us) |
| Italian (it) | English (en-us) |
| Russian (ru) | English (en-us) |
| Spanish (es) | English (en-us) |
Security update
Custom Translator API preview REST API calls now require User Access Token to authenticate.
Visit our GitHub repo for a C# code sample.
Fixes
Resolved document upload error that caused a blank page in the browser.
Applied functional modifications.
2021-May release
May 2021 improvements and fixes
We added new training pipeline to improve the custom model generalization and capacity to retain more customer terminology (words and phrases).
Refreshed Custom Translator baselines to fix word alignment bug. See list of impacted language pair*.
Language pair list
| Source Language | Target Language |
|---|---|
Arabic (ar) |
English (en-us) |
Brazilian Portuguese (pt) |
English (en-us) |
Bulgarian (bg) |
English (en-us) |
Chinese Simplified (zh-hans) |
English (en-us) |
Chinese Traditional (zh-Hant) |
English (en-us) |
Croatian (hr) |
English (en-us) |
Czech (cs) |
English (en-us) |
Danish (da) |
English (en-us) |
| Dutch (nl) | English (en-us) |
English (en-us) |
Arabic (ar) |
English (en-us) |
Bulgarian (bg) |
English (en-us) |
Chinese Simplified (zh-hans |
English (en-us) |
Chinese Traditional (zh-Hant |
English (en-us) |
Czech (cs) |
English (en-us) |
Danish (da) |
English (en-us) |
Dutch (nl) |
English (en-us) |
Estonian (et) |
English (en-us) |
Fijian (fj) |
English (en-us) |
Finnish (fi) |
English (en-us) |
French (fr) |
English (en-us) |
Greek (el) |
English (en-us) |
Hindi (hi) |
English (en-us) |
Hungarian (hu) |
English (en-us) |
Icelandic (is) |
English (en-us) |
Indonesian (id) |
English (en-us) |
Inuktitut (iu) |
English (en-us) |
Irish (ga) |
English (en-us) |
Italian (it) |
English (en-us) |
Japanese (ja) |
English (en-us) |
Korean (ko) |
English (en-us) |
Lithuanian (lt) |
English (en-us) |
Norwegian (nb) |
English (en-us) |
Polish (pl) |
English (en-us) |
Romanian (ro) |
English (en-us) |
Samoan (sm) |
English (en-us) |
Slovak (sk) |
English (en-us) |
Spanish (es) |
English (en-us) |
Swedish (sv) |
English (en-us) |
Tahitian (ty) |
English (en-us) |
Thai (th) |
English (en-us) |
Tongan (to) |
English (en-us) |
Turkish (tr) |
English (en-us) |
Ukrainian (uk) |
English (en-us) |
Welsh (cy) |
Estonian (et) |
English (en-us) |
Fijian (fj) |
English (en-us) |
Finnish (fi) |
English (en-us) |
German (de) |
English (en-us) |
Greek (el) |
English (en-us) |
Hungarian (hu) |
English (en-us) |
Icelandic (is) |
English (en-us) |
Indonesian (id) |
English (en-us) |
Inuktitut (iu) |
English (en-us) |
Irish (ga) |
English (en-us) |
Italian (it) |
English (en-us) |
Japanese (ja) |
English (en-us) |
Kazakh (kk) |
English (en-us) |
Korean (ko) |
English (en-us) |
Lithuanian (lt) |
English (en-us) |
Malagasy (mg) |
English (en-us) |
Maori (mi) |
English (en-us) |
Norwegian (nb) |
English (en-us) |
Persian (fa) |
English (en-us) |
Polish (pl) |
English (en-us) |
Romanian (ro) |
English (en-us) |
Russian (ru) |
English (en-us) |
Slovak (sk) |
English (en-us) |
Spanish (es) |
English (en-us) |
Swedish (sv) |
English (en-us) |
Tahitian (ty) |
English (en-us) |
Thai (th) |
English (en-us) |
Tongan (to) |
English (en-us) |
Turkish (tr) |
English (en-us) |
Vietnamese (vi) |
English (en-us) |
Welsh (cy) |
English (en-us) |
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