The person you are talking to will hear you speak in French, to be followed by a translated version of what you just said in English through speech and text. Let’s say you speak French the person you’re Skype-ing with speaks English. It’s kind of like having subtitled conversations in a way, operating on a near real-time capacity. The software will translate voice messages and will then pop out translated text and voice-over audio. Using deep neural networks, which are said to be more accurate when it comes to acoustic modeling in speech recognition, Skype Translator operates through the combination of audio and messaging technology. Nevertheless, its release as a Windows 8 beta app is set to be by the end of the 2014. Developed over more than a decade, Skype Translator is still being fine-tuned by developers to become the ultimate universal translator. This can only mean new possibilities and more opportunities on a global level. Skype already processes over 2 billion minutes of conversation in a day, and with this new technology even more new connections can be made. Microsoft’s Skype aims to break the language barrier through Skype Translator, which they claim to be semantically and grammatically correct and can be used in real time.

Imagine a world where you can talk to anyone from anywhere and still understand each other even though you’re speaking in different languages.

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