Real-Time Translation Technology

[Jazzy]

"Skype Translator results from decades of work by the industry, years of work by our researchers and now is being developed jointly by the Skype and Microsoft Translator teams. The demo showed near real-time audio translation from English to German and vice versa."

What do you think?

 

[DrLeftover]

Over the years I've used online text translators of several breeds for everything from Sanskrit to Latin.

I've found them to be sorely lacking and you're better off using a couple of them and then comparing the results instead of relying on just one.

If the automated services can't get written words right, how in the blue blazes are they going to get live audio right?

 

[Evil Eye]

If the automated services can't get written words right, how in the blue blazes are they going to get live audio right?

Who knows, but I won't be upset if they do. However unlikely it might be.