{"id":7550,"date":"2017-03-06T13:44:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T13:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2017-03-06T13:47:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T13:47:24","slug":"bing-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=7550","title":{"rendered":"Bing bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bing, Microsoft&#8217;s alternative to Google Translate, is used by Twitter to provide instant translation for users.<\/p>\n<p>However, it isn&#8217;t very good, as this blog has repeatedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=7316\">pointed out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it doesn&#8217;t look as if any improvements will be forthcoming soon, if the evidence below from your correspondent&#8217;s Twitter feed today is to be believed, where Bing mistook English for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Estonian_language\">Estonian<\/a>, a language belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2017\/03\/bing_estonian.png\" alt=\"screenshot of tweet with Bing mistaking English for Estonian\" width=\"576\" height=\"472\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2017\/03\/bing_estonian.png 576w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2017\/03\/bing_estonian-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If Bing cannot even identify the language correctly, one has to question the quality of any translation it produces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bing, Microsoft&#8217;s alternative to Google Translate, is used by Twitter to provide instant translation for users. However, it isn&#8217;t very good, as this blog has repeatedly pointed out. And it doesn&#8217;t look as if any improvements will be forthcoming soon, if the evidence below from your correspondent&#8217;s Twitter feed today is to be believed, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,34,9],"tags":[36,22,35,23],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-comment","tag-language","tag-social-media","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7555,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/7555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}