Meanwhile, during a more than hour-long onstage Q&A, Nadella spoke with Re/code's Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg about the future of personal computing, which he says is becoming more personal. "Skype Translator opens up so many possibilities to make meaningful connections in ways you never could before in education, diplomacy, multilingual families and in business."Īt this point, Skype attracts more than 300 million users every month, and more than 2 billion minutes of conversation a day, Microsoft said.
"It is early days for this technology, but the Star Trek vision for a Universal Translator (Opens in a new window) isn't a galaxy away, and its potential is every bit as exciting as those Star Trek examples," Pall wrote in a blog post (Opens in a new window) Tuesday.
Skype Translator will first be available as a Windows 8 beta app before the end of the year, Microsoft said. Their chat was translated in real-time through speech and text. Jointly developed by Microsoft researchers and Skype engineers, Translator uses real-time speech-to-speech translation technologies to let you have a conversation with someone over the Internet who speaks a different language.ĭuring a demo of the technology on stage, Skype corporate vice president Gurdeep Pall, speaking in English, had a conversation with German-speaking Microsoft employee Diana Heinrichs over Skype. where he talked up a new era of personal computing and unveiled technology intended to break down language barriers, dubbed Skype Translator. The software giant's new CEO, Satya Nadella, on Tuesday evening took the stage at the ingaural Code Conference in Ranchos Palos Verdes, Calif. Microsoft says it is on the verge of making that possible. Imagine being able to speak with anyone on the planet, regardless of whether or not you know their language.
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