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Microsoft Adds Real-Time Captions and Subtitles To Skype -- PowerPoint To Follow (betanews.com)
Skype is getting real-time captions and subtitles, and PowerPoint will have these features, too, next year. From a report: Ostensibly an accessibility feature (and launched on United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities), the new option means that Skype will be able to use voice recognition to show you the text of what is being said in a voice or video call. Microsoft will also bring the same feature to PowerPoint next year. Microsoft promises that live captions and subtitles are "optimized to be fast, continuous, and contextually updated as people speak", and in the current incarnation they will automatically scroll during a call. In a future update, however, it will be possible to manually scroll through subtitles and take advantage of additional viewing options.
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>> Skype is getting real-time captions and subtitles, and PowerPoint will have these features
Hilarity ensues. Can't wait for the first international conflict caused or massive business deal lost by a printed misinterpretation of garbled speech.
In not too long, Microsoft will add color to the text:
green -- your words are politically correct, citizen
yellow -- getting dangerous, potential terrorism
red -- obviously, you are a terrorist
The color will train people how to think and communicate properly. That, and the stories about very bad things that happened to people after they saw the 'red words'.
Big Brother is truly here now. Better to ditch Skype, if you haven't already done that 3 years ago.
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I don't know how a machine can understand those people who call to report that I have a computer problem with my Windows and they're happy to fix it for free. I would think that humans are FAR more capable than machines at language interpretation, and I fail miserably at it.
did they also promise to provide various government agencies with transcripts of everything?
it is, after all, the primary motivator here... not "accessibility" for the user (microsoft doesn't give a fuck about them), but for the government. having to siphon, process, and store all that video and audio is expensive and requires massively-huge data centers in the desert. transcripts are text. much, much smaller, compressible and easily searched.
This is fairly scary. Honest question, does anyone know of an alternative to Skype? It should have the following: - Work seamlessly on every PC and mobile OS - Allow mobile sharing of images/files - Group/solo text messaging - Voice calls, conference calls - Group/solo video calling - File transfers for binaries and screen shots/images - A company not transcribing calls
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Scared me there for a second. The title, if read a certain way, implies that after real-time captioning that theyâ(TM)d be implementing real-time PowerPoints. I mean, could you imagine being surrounded by virtual pie charts and bar graphs, not to mention badly animated clip art and inappropriate sound effects popping up out of nowhere?
The foreigners that provide Microsoft 'support' claim to be speaking English but I usually can't understand them. Maybe Skype can tell me what they are really saying. I guess its asking too much to include translation too.
Just saying.
Big Brother is captioning you, and testing it's accent translation software for the military industrial complex.
(mind you, I saw the original military intel specs where they planned to do this, so I'm not that surprised, even if you are)
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In our enterprise environment I've had to support the steaming pile of dung that is Skype, ahem I meant Lync. I cannot say just how bloated this app has become and it doesn't work most of the time except, if you're lucky, for texting. All of the features that made skype wonderful are almost unusable. I mean, before M$ bought it, it was slowly growing fat. But downloading the entire office core just to run it is insane.
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Add translation to that and I may be able to figure out what is being said in Chinese during the next call to Shenzen. The chinglish that is being spoken on those calls is undecipherable anyway.
Big Brother is truly here now. Better to ditch Skype, if you haven't already done that 3 years ago.
In the US, IP telephone captioning for the disabled is a free service provided by the federal government --- transcription by human operators not automated speech recognition. Can't Hear on The Phone? Explain to why having an operator captioning your calls over an open line is more secure and less intrusive than an automated system doing the same over an encrypted link.
Not to mention that access to Skype's service doesn't require filing a certificate from your doctor or other proof of disability., which is not a trivial disclosure,
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