The really exciting part here is that not only is the team listening to user feedback, but the system itself is getting better the more it’s used, in any language. The Skype team credits the addition of Russian to its spoken voice translation service to the countless Russian users that petitioned Microsoft to have their language added. As things stand right now Skype Translator can handle 50 different languages for text translations, and nine for voice: English, Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic and Russian. Translator was publicly launched last year, and since then the team has continuously expanded the language base that the service supports. Skype users will be able to talk in Russian and their speech will be translated in one of the other eight languages that the service supports.

And today, it’s getting support for another spoken language: Russian. It’s probably the closest thing right now to a universal translator and it’s been free ever since it launched. The service can translate in real-time between languages. The company provides women in Latin America with financial, health, and human development services and is using Skype Translator to communicate with them.Microsoft’s Skype Translator is an impressive piece of software. Khan highlighted one of the early adopter testers in a blog post, praising non-profit development organisation Pro Mujer based in New York. Microsoft launched Skype Translator last December and, initially, only a select number of people were able to use it. The back end of the system is powered by Bing Translator, which can handle voice input in seven different languages, but they may not all be supported by Skype for Business when the translation. Microsoft said it will add more languages to the app as they meet its quality standard. More users means the machine learning behind the app can improve its understanding of phrases and accents to become more accurate. 'Remember: Skype Translator uses machine learning, so the more people use the technology, the better the experience for everyone!'Ĭurrently, the Skype Translator preview can translate between English, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin, as well as 50 written languages in its instant messaging function. 'We are thrilled with the positive response from around the world, and especially thankful to ALL of the early adopters who downloaded the application, and use it every day,' she wrote. Skype's product marketing manager, Yasmin Khan, said in a blog post back in June that a greater number of users would improve the translating technology.

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