Skype is already popular in the classroom, with teachers participating in videoconferences to connect their schools to classrooms across the globe. This means Skype for Windows users no longer need a separate app to translate. Break down language barriers with real-time translation in both calls and chats. Skype Translator sounds like an app from the future, but. Skype Translator is easy to use, especially if you're already used to Skype itself, as the interface is almost identical. Microsoft is marketing Skype Translator as a tool for schools, and the company tested it out with students in the United States and Mexico. Skype today announced that its Skype Translator tool is now built directly into its main app for all Windows users. Skype Translator also offers translation for a further 46 languages for text only, so you can instant message on Skype in lots of languages. Microsoft previously demonstrated the technology working between English and German, but Spanish will be the only language outside of English that will be initially supported during the preview. An English speaker will hear a translation from a Spanish speaker, and vice versa. Skype Translator Preview works on Windows 8.1 or preview copies of Windows 10, and it works by translating voice input from an English or Spanish speaker into text and translated audio.
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It sounds like magic, but it’s the result of years of work from Microsoft’s research team and Skype to provide an early working copy of software that could help change the way the world communicates in the future. As part of a preview program, Skype Translator makes it possible for English and Spanish speakers to communicate in their native languages, without having to learn the other one. Microsoft’s Skype software today will start translating voice calls.