While tests and demonstrations have been in limited and controlled experiments, Microsoft’s move today opens up its Skype Translator to a much wider audience to test it in the real world. Currently available only as a preview app for Windows 8.1 computers and tablets, Skype Translator lets you chat with with people in different languages, either in speech or via instant messaging. Skype is already popular in the classroom, with teachers participating in videoconferences to connect their schools to classrooms across the globe. Microsoft is marketing Skype Translator as a tool for schools, and the company tested it out with students in the United States and Mexico. Microsoft previously demonstrated the technology working between English and German, but Spanish will be the only language outside of English that will be initially supported during the preview. Skype is working on additional languages and its long-term goal. An English speaker will hear a translation from a Spanish speaker, and vice versa. In the preview, first two languages Skype Translator supports are English (US) and Spanish.
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Complete list of these languages must be. While the initial version only supported English and Spanish, today’s update brings Italian and Chinese (Mandarin). Skype Translator Preview works on Windows 8.1 or preview copies of Windows 10, and it works by translating voice input from an English or Spanish speaker into text and translated audio. Skype will now translate more than 50 languages for messaging over texts and 7 languages during the voice calls.
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The translation software now includes six voice.
It sounds like magic, but it’s the result of years of work from Microsoft’s research team and Skype to provide an early working copy of software that could help change the way the world communicates in the future. With the app updated youll see a small globe icon appear, which turns on Translator with a single click. As part of a preview program, Skype Translator makes it possible for English and Spanish speakers to communicate in their native languages, without having to learn the other one. Microsoft’s Skype software today will start translating voice calls.
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