Microsoft Translator is a translation service from Microsoft with three parts. The personal apps translate speech, text, menus, signs, websites and documents, including offline. For businesses, Microsoft offers text and speech translation through the Translator API and the Speech service, part of Azure AI Services. For education there is live captioning and cross-language understanding in the classroom. The service is delivered as apps and as a cloud API.
Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond in the United States and is subject to US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act. For the Translator API, the endpoint chosen determines where a request is processed: the Europe endpoint uses France Central or West Europe, and Switzerland has its own regions. The global endpoint uses the closest available datacenter and, during a datacenter failure, may process a request outside the originating geography. According to Microsoft, text translation does not store customer data. European organisations therefore need to choose a regional endpoint deliberately.