Article: Microsoft emulates Star Trek, turns Skype into a Universal Translator

Microsoft is once again taking the world by storm. At the recent Code Conference in California they announced the newest service offered through Skype, Skype Translator. The service provides real-time translation of the spoken word.

From the article:

Yesterday at the Code Conference in California, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Skype corporate vice president Gurdeep Pall, introduced Skype Translator. It’s the first time that this new feature has been demonstrated publicly, and involved a Skype conversation between Pall speaking English in California and Diana Heinrichs speaking German in London.

More info is also available from the Microsoft blog. This will be available as a Windows 8 beta app by the end of 2014.

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"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."  ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein