Microsoft demonstrates real time speech translation on Skype video call

Microsoft demonstrated a real time translator for Skype which can be used to translate speech in video calls.During the demonstration Microsoft showed how two employees were talking to each other in English and German where the audio was translated in nearly real time.

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The translation technology works by combining Skype voice and IM technologies with Microsoft Translator, and neural network-based speech recognition. Skype Translator first will be available as a Windows 8 beta app before the end of 2014.

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