Microsoft has Monday a test version released Skype Translator, a tool for the realtimevertalen of video calls. The company does this after the previous month formally with the previewprogramma began.
That made the American software company announced on its Skype blog. Provisionally supports the tool only spoken English and Spanish, but Microsoft promises that more languages will follow. In addition, Skype Translator to also handle with more than forty written languages.
Microsoft announced Skype Translator in may this year. At the time, showed the American company in a demonstration already see how two employees spoke to each other in German and English. The software translated the ‘heard’ words from one language to another and then back out to speak. A month ago, Microsoft began a closed previewprogramma.
Recently introduced Microsoft to own say a successful experiment in two schools: one in the United States and one in Mexico. At those schools, the pupils, respectively, in English and Spanish. The American company to let them talk to each other, without that the students knew with whom they spoke and where their partner came from.
Skype Translator works with machine learning, which means that the program of the spoken and written input of its users used to a language to better ‘understand’. Microsoft says that the support of spoken English and Spanish is improving as that are more likely to be applied. The company is looking for out which languages it will support. Microsoft is calling users to make any wishes.
Incidentally, not everyone can just Skype Translator use. For now it works, the tool only on a device with Windows 8.1. Microsoft says, however, that “as many as possible’ languages will follow and that this in the future ‘as much as possible’ platforms can. When all this needs to happen, and now it is not clear yet. It is going to be a long-range plan.
Skype Translator is Microsoft’s latest attempt to realtimevertaling by to break. For years, companies try to achieve success with similar systems. So did Cisco all tests during a video conference, and worked with Google to a function to make phone calls real time to translate.