This is the first time the world’s largest software company has demonstrated the breakthrough technology publicly in the U.S. From family members making calls across oceans to journalists interviewing sources in remote areas, we'll soon be able to understand each other a little bit better - even without an internet connection.After Cortana, its voice-activated personal assistant designed to rival Apple's Siri, Microsoft introduces a test version of its real-time, spoken-word translation service for Skype calls. This new feature will open up Skype's translation service to an even wider network, and its potential could be endless. The new version of Skype Preview will also give users new options to share contact details with other users, offline video messaging, the ability to mark conversations as read or unread and Skype call forwarding to a mobile or landline number. To date, nine spoken languages are supported: English, Spanish, French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Arabic and Russian. Most of the developments to Translator up until now had been focused on bringing more languages into the fold, with Mandarin Chinese coming onboard in April 2015 and Arabic debuting earlier this year. The person on the other end of the line will hear a message stating that the call is being recorded and translated through the service, which will be very clear once the conversation begins. When placing a call, users just need to set their language of choice and the tool will take care of the rest. With the Skype Preview software downloaded and updated, all that's needed to make the international and landline calls is either sufficient Skype credit or a full-on subscription to the service. Windows Insider Program (Opens in a new tab) members (which is free to join and open to the public) will be the first to have access to the new feature.
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