Microsoft announced the availability of Skype Translator by the end of next summer, when will be integrated within the client for the desktop systems officer.
The real-time translations of Skype are part of one of the most interesting and ambitious projects by Microsoft. Skype Translator is available for all users in preview version, and aims to break down barriers in communication between people who speak different languages. Announced in December.
The next step is the integration of the functionality in the official client for desktop systems, which will arrive in the summer: ” To bring the experience of Skype Translator more and more in people’s lives, the technology of Skype will be integrated in the app’s Translator Preview Skype for Windows desktop “, does indeed know now in a post in the official blog. ” At the end of summer 2015 will start the roll-out. ”
Last month we wrote that ” trying Skype Translator feeling is of being in one of those science fiction movies in which humans try to communicate with alien entities by means of unlikely devices that translate different languages in real time. ” Indeed so, although the operation can be improved. After all we are talking about a product not yet finalized, available to the public only in the preview version.
At the moment Skype Translator fully supports English, Italian, Spanish and Mandarin, as well as 50 languages in which translations are offered exclusively in textual form. The service will improve over time in a gradual manner as it grows the use by the users. With the launch of the public beta, also Microsoft has announced that the last month has been a 300% use of the translator in real time.
Skype Translator will then an integrated Skype for desktop from the end of next summer, with the roll-out should be completed in a few weeks from the early stages of release.