Skype launches first experimental phase of interpretation "interpreter Skype"

Chat service Skype announced on Monday the launch of the first pilot phase of the feature interpreter "Skype interpreter" Skype Translator which is expected to revolutionize the field of communications.

Skype said through her blog "for more than a decade, Skype broke the geographical barriers to make audio connections daily's possible."

The company explained that the pilot program to feature "interpreter Skype" - which comes in cooperation with the "Microsoft Research" Microsoft Research - will be launched initially in English and Spanish, with the possibility of instant translation of text messages to and from which more than 40 languages.

She Skype, owned by Microsoft, said that the pilot program is only available to users who have registered through the registration page for your advantage, "interpreter Skype" and who use the operating system "Windows 8.1".

To celebrate the launch of the program, Skype aired video footage students from the United States and Mexico, which shows Communicating through the program, who took the task of translation of students between English and Spanish in real time.

The company participated some information relating to the advantage of "interpreter Skype", announced by Microsoft Corp. in the month of May / May last, she comes after a decade during which the research in speech recognition technology, automatic translation, machine learning.

Microsoft acquired and was on the Skype service in 2011 compared to $ 8.5 billion in one of the largest acquisitions conducted by the company, but however the service is facing fierce competition from a number of competitors, such as "Google Hangouts" and "BPM" and "Tango "and" Viber ", a service that offers the possibility to chat and voice dialing.