0.6.1 Release in Maven Central

[Jonathan]

All -

I've just released v0.6.1 of the microsoft-translator-java-api to the
Maven Central Repository.

This release fixes a bug for people who upgraded to v0.6 and are still
using the old Bing App ID for authenticating API calls.

If you are currently running v0.6 and are using the new Windows Azure
Marketplace ClientID & Client Secret method of authentication, there
is no burning reason to upgrade to this new release.

Thanks!
-jonathan

[Leo Lin]

Hi,

thanks for the translator API update and release. I am just wondering is it possible that you or Microsoft can release an API that actually acts like a dictionary between languages. As a bilingual student myself, I would like to translate vocabulary from English to Chinese, but there is no feasible and free application that gets the job done. So as a programmer, I can create one myself, but again, there seems to be no such API for dictionary-like translation.

Thanks,
Leo

[Jonathan Griggs]

Hello Leo -

When you say "dictionary" functionality, can you describe in more detail what you would like to see? 

Pure vocabulary translation SHOULD be supported both by the actual Microsoft Translator API and the Java API as it is not required that the translation text be a full phrase.  This can be accomplished simply by calling Translate.execute() passing only the single word you wish to translate as the first parameter. Microsoft's rate limits are applied on a per-character basis (as opposed to per-call, for example), so using it for single-word vocabulary translation should not be inherently any more expensive than full-phrase translations.

If you are referring to more robust dictionary functionality - with definitions, and pronunciation - as described here and found on the Microsoft Translator main page, then that type of functionality is not currently supported by the public Microsoft Translator API.

-jonathan