Microsoft announced the release of voice translator called Skype Translator. It allows you to translate the voice of the caller in real time.
The company announced that worked as a translator for over 10 years and now ready to present its beta version for testing all thirsty. Highly functional, this transfer looks like a scene from the mythical movie. Two people speak video in different languages, and the program translates each aloud, demonstrating next video in addition to text translation in the form of chat. Microsoft demonstrated this in the video.
As said in the blog of the company, the video shows an experiment in which children from secondary schools of different States - Peterson School in Mexico city (Mexico) and Stafford Elementary School in Tacoma (United States) - played the game "Mystery Skype" in which it was necessary, asking questions on wideswath to find where is the other school.
Despite the eye-catching demonstration, the work of the translator isn't perfect. Voice translation system supports only between the British and Spanish, and text between 4 dozens of languages. Available this translator only computers with operating system Windows 8.1, but you can safely expect that it will receive and the owners of the new Windows 10, which will work including on mobile devices. To test the system right now by placing an order on the Microsoft web site. The creators have stated that the system works on the technology of machine learning, in other words, over time, the translation must become more efficient.
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