However, like all similar services, it’s not perfect and will produce some strange text occasionally. The ‘voice to text’ conversion is pretty good and so is the translation between languages. When someone speaks on the call, their words will appear as subtitles.
Skype will prompt you to select your language (for display of subtitles or voice translation) if it can’t work it out from your computer settings. Start a voice or video call as usual, then choose ‘Turn subtitles on’ from the menu. Personally, we prefer to hear the original voice and read subtitles, the choice is yours. It will convert the spoken word into text or voice including translation if necessary. As a bonus, the same subtitles service will translate when talking to someone who speaks another language. Once this setup process is done for a contact it does not need to be repeated.Skype subtitles are great if you’d prefer a text record of your call or you’re hard of hearing and like a text extra. Next click on the language next to each contact and select the default for each participant. To activate the translator feature for a contact on Skype just open up a conversation window with them and look for the globe on the right side of the window just below the call buttons.Ĭlick that globe and it will open up a dialog box where you can turn on automatic translations for this contact. Over the ensuing months the preview was expanded and now we have the completed roll out.
This has been a project that has been in the public eye since December of 2014 with the release of the first public preview of the translation service and I got to try it out last April and it was very impressive at that point. See this page for a full list of supported languages. In addition, automatic text too text translation in Skype can be done for over 50 languages using the software's IM features. This roll out has taken just over three months to wrap up and brings the ability to automatically translate seven spoken languages that include Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The world has become a little smaller with the completion of Skype's automatic translation feature as it rolls out to all users of the Windows desktop version of the program.
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