Microsoft has announced what it called a breakthrough in real-time voice translation and said it would offer a test version through its Skype messaging unit before the end of 2014.
The US tech giant demonstrated the new Skype Translator at the Code Conference, saying it fulfills a vision of the “universal translator” in the Star Trek science fiction series . “
“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.” The product, the result of years of research at Microsoft, will be available as a Windows 8 beta app before the end of 2014, Pall said.
