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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.
>> 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.
Big Brother is truly here now. Better to ditch Skype, if you haven't already done that 3 years ago.
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Micro Soft Peach recognition is perfect. Their have bean no errors in peach recognition in the soft wear ever.
All you knead is to speak clearly, and the peach recognizer will print out your peach.
think of it, no miss steaks and errors in the output text of the recognized peach.
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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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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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,
I think it is neat. They FINALLY allow us users to read the NSA text transcripts.
They should have had this ability ever since they switched Skype from a peer-to-peer protocol to a centralized one were all video fees go through their servers.
s/fees/feeds/
sorry my mind slipped for a moment there...