Skype’s Live Translation
Saturday
May 13, 2006
Here’s another way by which Voice-over-Internet Protocol provider Skype is bridging the gap between countries and continents: Live Translation!
My thoughts posted over at ForeverGeek:
Simply put, not everyone else in the world can speak your language, nor is everyone always willing (nor readily able) to suddenly adapt overnight just to accommodate you. And I’d tend to think this is a mutual thing–you probably won’t think it’s convenient to learn Cantonese or Hmong at five minutes’ notice, would you? Nor would it be practical to start learning a foreign language just so you can converse with a friend for 30 minutes.
Skype probably realized that majority of its clients aren’t interested in chatting up the next-door neighbor or friends from the next city through its facilities–in most cases, local phone calls would be cheaper! VoIP users are likely those looking into savings from over-seas or long-distance calls.
It’s quite expensive, though, at $2.99 per minute. Hey, if you need any English-Tagalog translation, you might want to drop me a line. I’d probably be willing to do it for free, time permitting. Or for text translation, you can try Babelfish instead (Google Translate is cool, too, but it has a limited language set).
J. Angelo Racoma is a technology journalist and blogger. See more of his blog posts here at racoma.com.ph, commentaries at racoma.net, and Twitter feed at @jangelo.
Comments
ZOverLord
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:40 am
Happy to announce that the The ULRTMT – Skype Version 2.5 Beta “Universal Language Real-Time Message Translator” now supports:
Real Time Chat Language Translation!
Yes, you can now chat with others in your own native language and have your text translated in “Real-Time”. Both your sent and received chat messages.
The following Language Translations in Real-Time for Skype Chats are:
English to Arabic BETA
English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA
English to Chinese Traditional
English to Dutch
English to French
English to German
English to Greek
English to Italian
English to Japanese BETA
English to Korean BETA
English to Portuguese
English to Russian
English to Spanish
Arabic to English
Chinese (Simplified) BETA to English
Chinese Traditional to English
Dutch to English
Dutch to French
French to Dutch
French to English
French to German
French to Greek
French to Italian
French to Portuguese
French to Spanish
German to English
German to French
Greek to English
Greek to French
Italian to English
Italian to French
Japanse to English Beta
Korean to English Beta
Portuguese to English
Portuguese to French
Russian to English
Spanish to English
Spanish to French
All of the above translations work in Real-time using Skype Chats
More information here:
http://testing.onlytherightanswers.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=49
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