Microsoft Breaks Language Barrier With Speech Translation On Skype

Skype has for long enhanced communication possibilities with  people in different parts of the world to through video, voice, and text chat. Now the service is looking to expand those capabilities by testing out a feature that could allow people who don’t speak the same language to talk with each other.

Awesome? Yes, We know.

Today at the first annual CODE Conference, Head of Skype and Lync Gurdeep Singh Pall tested a new speech-to-speech translation technology that Microsoft is currently working on for future Skype users. The feature translates speech from one language to another in near real-time.

As it was demoed, Pall’s speech was translated from English into text for transcription on a colleague’s screen in German, and also into voice in German… and vice versa.

At the conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the feature would be avialable later this year, and that the company would try to launch it on as many devices and apps as possible.

We await the arrival of this awesome feature.