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Quote:Microsoft has demonstrated Skype carrying out voice translation almost instantaneously. It plans to roll out the feature to the public starting later this year.
Voice translation has been around for several years, with varying degrees of success. In 2010, Google unveiled a voice feature in Google Translate that — in theory at least — allowed two people speaking different languages to converse by passing phones back and forth. It later demonstrated the idea being taken to the logical conclusion of running on two smartphones and working on a phone call.
At a tech conference titled Code, Microsoft demonstrated Skype Translator. Two Microsoft staff used the technology to have a conversation in English and German respectively. The actual translation itself was described by some delegates as not perfect, but impressive and certainly enough to understand the essence of the conversation.
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