It's a 'preview' that you can download now on Windows 8 and above, which means while its stable enough for anyone to try, but is still unfinished and in-development. Skype Translator allows almost realtime translation, so you can chat to your Skype contacts in different languages (currently 4 are supported). There is also a Infographic describing how Skype Translator works: skype/docs/SkypeTranslatorInfo.Softonic-recensie Test Skype's live translation tool You can use all of the features of Skype Translate Preview to call and chat with another user running any Skype client (on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, etc). How to installĭownload the latest Skype for Windows client for Windows XP and higher at

Microsoft has announced this was completed in a blog post on January 13 2016. Microsoft announced that the Skype Translator features will be rolled out to regular Skype desktop users by the end of summer 2015. The At-Large Technology Taskforce Working Group demoed the Skype Translator Preview on its Technology Taskforce meeting call.

Microsoft released Skype Translator Preview in late 2014 as a limited preview and then made it available to the wider public in 2Q 2015. Watch the Youtube video by Microsoft showing how you can use Skype Translator in your regular Skype See the Skype Translator support page on how to setup Skype Translator : The machine translation is not perfect, however the ability to have a near real time conversation in another language is impressive. It works in near real time and after the call, the transcript of the call can be saved. The text is then translated and shown in the chat, followed by a machine speaking the translated message.

When having a voice conversation with another Skype user with translation enabled, Skype recognizes the speaker's voices, transcribes the spoken words and shows the transcribed text in the chat window. For voice recognition and spoken interpretation, Skype supports Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese ,Portuguese Brazilian, Russian and Spanish You can also select what languages you speak and write when communicating with that person.Īs of November 2016, the Skype Translator feature does machine translation of chat messages in over 50 languages. For any Skype contact in Skype for Windows, you can enable translation and select what language that person speaks and what language that person writes.

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