Skype Translator
Skype Translator is a speech to speech translation application developed by Skype, which has operated as a division of Microsoft since 2011.[1] Skype Translator Preview has been publicly available on a limited basis since December 15, 2014.
Skype Translator was built on developments in deep neural networks[2] for speech recognition and Microsoft Translator’s statistical machine translation[3] technology. Users converse in their native languages, and the speech is translated from one language to the other in “near real-time”,[4] with the output translation presented by computer-generated speech synthesis. The current version supports speech translation to and from English and Spanish.
The application also features on-screen text transcripts of the spoken phrases in their original language along with the translation.
In addition, Skype Translator supports Skype Instant Message, which can translate users’ instant messages into over 40 languages supported by Microsoft Translator.[5]
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References
- ↑ Rooney, Ben. "Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.5 billion".
- ↑ "Skype Translator: Breaking down language barriers".
- ↑ "Milestones on the path to Skype Translator". Microsoft Research.
- ↑ Lowensohn, Josh. "Skype shown automatically translating multilingual voice calls". The Verge.
- ↑ "Skype Translator Preview".