Microsoft's Real-Time Skype Translator To Be Available Before 2015

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  Ankita Katdare

  I spent 4 years of my life learning how to communicate, read and write in Japanese, only to know that technology can one day make that knowledge obsolete!
  
  😲 aah!
  
  Now knowing foreign languages can only come in handy if your plane (carrying international passengers) crashes on a lonely island and there's no technology available. 😐
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  I already imagine a day when we'll not have to learn anything new. I'm sure the universities across the world will simply install a 4 year degree course in a chip and then fit it into our brain to turn us into engineers. Save the humans.
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  Harshad Italiya

  One of my friend is waiting for this feature from a long time. He used to work with Brazilian company and it was a big headache to use google translator everytime.
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  Narendra Grandhi

  Does this translator works even in watching online movies without having subtitles? That way I can enjoy any foriegn language movie without searching for subtiltles...
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  Rajni Jain

  Exciting,
  What all languages will it support?
  
  I heard that when English speaking folks deals with non-English spoken (especially Chinese) folks, earlier they used to TRANSLITRATE and it used to give a horrid time to understand the transliterate language 😀.
  
  I am sure this skype translator will help them a lot, and language will no more be issue for international boundaries.
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  Harshad Italiya

  Aliexpress.com has their own messenger and they have feature so seller can type in Chinese but we used to receive message in English or whatever language we set.
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  Chaitanya Kukde

  #-Link-Snipped-# In 2012, the founder of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid took just eight sentences to electrify a crowd of 2,000 students and faculty in Tianjin, China. Decades of DNN and speech research culminate in a stunning live translation of Rashid’s voice speaking in English while the Chinese audience hears his voice in Mandarin. The speech recognition system in the demo rehearsal exhibits an error rate of less than 7%, or about the same as a person might perform at taking word-for-word notes. Check out the video #-Link-Snipped-#
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  PhL38Fr

  This seems to me a poorly thought-of assertion (even with a smile). I am pretty sure that, as a learner of japanese language, you realized (and still do) that you cannot come any closer than a certain distance of the meaning for the spoken words of a native mother language speaker. This is due to the ubiquituous ambiguity in languages where much of the spoken words depends on the context, local, social and personal mindset all together. I can only doubt that AI will get to the level of expertise that it can reproduce all the subtleties of any slightly complex sentence. You may want to answer that the speakers do not necessarily want to get subtle or complex but the fact is that human psyche is subtle and complex and every part of it makes its way, consciously or unconsciously through our spoken expression. Moreover, speech is not the only expression means in which we may need to know a foreign language: reading from a foreign author is something that -as far as I could judge from recent attempts with automatic translation tools- is still a long way from reach of the electronic tools for making it available in your mother language.
  So, not only can you consider your investment is not spent in vain but you may want to invest more: the future is bright for people having the mastership of several languages.
  PhL (frenchie)
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  Ankita Katdare

  #-Link-Snipped-# Now that I think of it, no knowledge ever goes to waste. You are right. 😀
  
  But with technology & research - the thumb rule is "Never say never!"