Microsoft Demos Skype Translator Interpreting Multilingual Voice Conversations In Real Time
At the inaugural Code Conference, Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, and Corporate VP of Skype and Lync, Gurdeep Pall, showed near real-time audio translation from English to German.
At the inaugural Code Conference, Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, and Corporate VP of Skype and Lync, Gurdeep Pall, showed off a new capability which the Skype and Microsoft Translator teams are now developing.
At the Code Conference, Gurdeep Pall showed the new Skype Translator app while Re/code's Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher looked on. (Image source: Re/code..)
The idea is to ultimately translate voice conversations between people in real time. The service, called Skype Translator, lets you converse with another person in your language. Microsoft will interpret your language, and translate it to the other person (who speaks another language). The demonstration at the conference showed near real-time audio translation from English to German and vice versa, combining Skype voice and IM technologies with Microsoft Translator, and neural network-based speech recognition.
Skype Translator will be first available as a Windows 8 beta app, before the end of 2014.
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