Skype will soon have the ability to translate multilingual conversations in real time, as Microsoft graduates software translations from written text to actual voice calls. The translations will be done simultaneously, displaying multilingual subtitles. Chris Wendt, program manager of Microsofts Machine Translation team, said We felt speech translation was a very natural evolution of the text-translation work weve been doing. Its an exciting project, and it became clear that adding this capability to Skype and enabling people to have translated conversations was the killer scenario to get this technology into customers hands. Microsoft is launching the translation engine in a beta version on Windows 8.1 later this year.
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