Last week Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Skype will soon be able to translate voice and video calls in near-real-time. \u00a0This means you can speak Afrikaans to your Russian colleague in Moscow and you will be able to understand each other without using a common language such as English. Since Skype has over\u00a0300-million users each month, Skype Translate will have a huge international reach.<\/p>\n
Skype Translate uses ”transfer learning” – it get better at the languages it already knows each time it learns a new one. Microsoft isn’t clear on how this works, but we can safely say that its a very useful algorithm.<\/p>\n
The software is currently still in it’s testing phase, but Microsoft officially announced<\/a> a beta-test version will be available for Windows 8 by the end of this year. If you want to see how Skype Translate works, have a look at the demo\u00a0video<\/a>.<\/p>\n Screen shot of the Skype Translate demo at Code Conference.<\/p><\/div>\n [SOURCE: www.memeburn.com]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ons het onlangs genoem dat Skype groep video\u00a0<\/a>-oproepe gratis beskikbaar gemaak het aan sy gebruikers en nou is hulle weer in die nuus met `n nuwe innovasie.\u00a0<\/p>\n Laasweek het\u00a0Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella aangekondig dat Skype binnekort ook stem- en video-oproepe amper-intyds kan vertaal. Dit beteken dat jy in Afrikaans met jou Russiese kollega in Moskou kan praat en julle mekaar 100% sal kan verstaan sonder om `n gemeemskaplike taal soos Engels te gebruik. Aangesien Skype meer as 300 miljoen gebruikers per maand het, is dit vanselfsprekend dat Skype Translate `n groot internasionale bereik gaan h\u00ea.<\/p>\n Skype Translate brei ook sy taaldatabasis uit deur middel van “leeroordrag” – die sagteware verbeter die tale waaroor dit reeds beskik, terwyl `n nuwe een aangeleer word. Microsoft is nie duidelik oor hoe die proses werk nie, maar dis verseker `n algoritme wat handig te pas kom.<\/p>\n Die sagteware is tans in `n toetsfase, maar Microsoft het amptelik\u00a0aangekondig<\/a>\u00a0dat `n beta-toets weergawe beskikbaar sal wees vir Windows 8 teen die einde van die jaar. As jy Skype Translate in aksie wil sien, kyk gerus na die demonstrasie\u00a0video<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Screen shot of the Skype Translate demo at Code Conference.<\/p><\/div>\n [BRON: www.memeburn.com]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We recently told you about Skype’s new free group video calls and now they’ve upped their game and added yet another new function.\u00a0 Last week Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Skype will soon be able to translate voice and video calls in near-real-time. \u00a0This means you can speak Afrikaans to your Russian colleague in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1103],"tags":[29208],"class_list":["post-5894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","tag-skype"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 03:43:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5894"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions\/9236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2014\/06\/skype-translate.jpg\"){kind=spacer}