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Bing Translator vs SayHi
March 12, 2025 | Author: Adam Levine
4★
Bing Translator is a user facing translation portal provided by Microsoft as part of its Bing services to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages. All translation pairs are powered by the Microsoft Translator statistical machine translation platform and web service, developed by Microsoft Research, as its backend translation software.
2★
SayHi Translate is the interpreter in your pocket. Talk to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad and hear your words back in different languages. Tap your language button, speak into the microphone, and your voice will be instantly translated. Have a conversation with anyone without needing to switch languages. You can also type anytime by simply pressing the keyboard buttons.
Bing Translator and SayHi, despite their differing origins and aspirations, both share a noble mission: preventing humans from floundering in linguistic confusion. They turn garbled attempts at foreign languages into something vaguely comprehensible, often with an accent that suggests the speaker may have recently suffered a minor head injury. Both apps whisper sweet nothings in multiple tongues, feature voice output to make you sound at least 12% more fluent, and, in a feat of undeniable wizardry, live comfortably inside your phone without demanding an extortionate rent.
Bing Translator, a proud creation of Microsoft since 2009, takes its job very seriously—so seriously that it insists on integrating itself into all things Microsoft, just in case you were feeling lonely in Word or Skype. It caters to those who need translation in all possible forms, from typed text to impromptu photos of mysterious menus. More impressively, it offers offline translation, which is a great comfort if you find yourself somewhere particularly exotic, like a small village where Wi-Fi is still considered witchcraft.
SayHi, meanwhile, is a different breed altogether, born in 2011 with a singular obsession: making spoken conversations slightly less baffling. It is less concerned with documents, camera scans or the existential crisis of being offline, focusing instead on the magical moment when two people try and fail, to understand each other. Its interface is so simple that even a jet-lagged traveler, after confidently ordering "one fried confusion" instead of "one fried fish," can still find their way back to linguistic salvation.
See also: Top 10 Online Translators
Bing Translator, a proud creation of Microsoft since 2009, takes its job very seriously—so seriously that it insists on integrating itself into all things Microsoft, just in case you were feeling lonely in Word or Skype. It caters to those who need translation in all possible forms, from typed text to impromptu photos of mysterious menus. More impressively, it offers offline translation, which is a great comfort if you find yourself somewhere particularly exotic, like a small village where Wi-Fi is still considered witchcraft.
SayHi, meanwhile, is a different breed altogether, born in 2011 with a singular obsession: making spoken conversations slightly less baffling. It is less concerned with documents, camera scans or the existential crisis of being offline, focusing instead on the magical moment when two people try and fail, to understand each other. Its interface is so simple that even a jet-lagged traveler, after confidently ordering "one fried confusion" instead of "one fried fish," can still find their way back to linguistic salvation.
See also: Top 10 Online Translators
