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Ars Reviews Skype Translator

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the in-the-future-everyone-will-have-been-in-the-past dept.

Esra Erimez writes Peter Bright doesn't speak a word of Spanish but with Skype Translator he was able to have a spoken conversation with a Spanish speaker as if he was in an episode of Star Trek. He spoke English. A moment later, an English language transcription would appear, along with a Spanish translation. Then a Spanish voice would read that translation.

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  1. Small problem by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    The translation went well, but...

    The first thing that Peter heard was "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

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  2. One annoyance... by vikman · · Score: 5, Informative

    I work on Skype Translator. Given the complexity of the technology in the back-end, the team looked for a client code base that was fast to experiment with, develop and release on - and so the modern windows 8 app seems like a good way to go - no other nefarious reason. Also, users of skype translator can call other Skype clients (Skype Desktop is officially supported, while I have certainly called ios, xbox on other clients successfully).

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