Microsoft is set to release a new function for its internet phone service Skype that will translate voices in ‘near-real time’.
Skype Translator, which works through a combination of Skype voice, IM technologies from Microsoft Translator and a “neural network-based speech recognition”, will be released as a Windows 8 beta app by the end of the year.
The new function was announced yesterday at the inaugural Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
In a blog post on the Microsoft site Gurdeep Pall, corporate vice president of Skype and Lync at Microsoft, said language barriers have so far been Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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