Large multinational companies that have employees from different parts of the world may face a problem in their online meetings: the language. This can also be an impasse outside the professional environment, such as in study groups or even friendships.
Skype, which is one of the most used platforms to connect people who are in different parts of the globe, already offers many advantages to its users. A productivity is guaranteed by Microsoft, and its users are not limited to holding online meetings quickly and conveniently.
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It is also possible to conduct interviews, make and receive phone calls – including international ones, with a caller ID. -, send SMS, share location in real time, send files in different formats, and it's even possible to add effects in the background of calls.
Microsoft, developer of Skype, also has several tools for educational purposes and there are offers for students and their guardians.
On Skype's official blog, a Microsoft publication draws attention to the ways that Skype Artificial Intelligencel (AI) is taking. The post reflects on the expansion of AI within technology. It can be a necessary tool for everyone as it always proves to be efficient.
Skype AI does simultaneous translation in 11 languages
Once again AI provides a universal tool to make connections easier. This is a new Skype feature capable of real-time translations during video calls.
From this AI, it will be possible to make video calls with people who speak different languages in a practical way. This translation, in addition to taking place in real time, will use the call member's own voice in the interpretations in another language.
This way, when the participant of the Skype video call speaks, his language will be automatically identified and later translated into the other person's. For this to happen, AI will make use of speech recognition and natural language processing.
Skype Translator can be found for more than 60 languages, however, so far, only eleven languages can be translated in real time through AI. Brazilian Portuguese is one of them, as well as Spanish, French, Mandarin, English, Italian, Russian, German, Arabic and others.
Microsoft claims that, over time, other languages will also be able to be translated simultaneously.
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