{"id":67378,"date":"2014-05-28T21:18:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T19:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=67378"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:40:09","slug":"skype-live-voice-translation-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/skype-live-voice-translation-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype demos live voice translations, coming to Windows 8 this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Skype for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/skype.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Skype<\/a> is about to be infinitely more useful for international users. The company showed off its live voice translation tool inside Skype. Called Skype Translator, the tool will debut in <a title=\"Windows 8.1 review and download\" href=\"http:\/\/windows-8-1.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 8<\/a> &#8220;before the end of 2014.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>The video above shows two people, one speaking German and one speaking English, conversing seamlessly with live translations. The technology is advanced enough to translate sentences with proper grammar.<\/p>\n<p>I can see Skype Translator being extremely useful for international teams that have members speaking different languages.<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Android Police\" href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2014\/05\/28\/microsoft-demos-live-voice-translation-in-skype-coming-first-to-windows-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android Police<\/a><\/em> speculates that Skype Translator may not be a free service when it launches. You can expect to see the feature debut on Microsoft&#8217;s platforms first.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/microsoft_blog\/archive\/2014\/05\/27\/microsoft-demos-breakthrough-in-real-time-translated-conversations.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft<\/a> | <a title=\"Microsoft Research\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/news\/features\/translator-052714.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Lewis on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/official-telegram-app-for-windows-phone-now-available-in-beta\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Official Telegram App for Windows Phone now available in beta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/skype-hidden-smileys-emoticons\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skype&#8217;s 22 hidden emoticons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apple-promises-to-fix-imessage-bug-that-holds-text-messages-ransom\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple promises to fix iMessage bug that holds text messages ransom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype is about to be infinitely more useful for international users. The company showed off its live voice translation tool inside Skype. Called Skype Translator, the tool will debut in Windows 8 &#8220;before the end of 2014.&#8221; Default player brightcove.createExperiences(); The video above shows two people, one speaking German and one speaking English, conversing seamlessly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/skype-live-voice-translation-tool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skype demos live voice translations, coming to Windows 8 this year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":67381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2559],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-67378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionskype"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330688,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67378\/revisions\/330688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67378"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=67378"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=67378"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=67378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}