From InfoWorld: Microsoft spent the last half of 2014 getting everyone excited about Skype Translator, a new technology that translates real-time conversations between two people speaking different languages over Skype. The new feature went into an invite-only preview in December.
Not to be left behind, Google recently let slip to The New York Times that it intends to beef up the spoken translation chops of Google Translate for Android and (presumably) iOS.
Pretty soon, Google Translate will automatically detect when someone is speaking and translate and transcribe their words on the fly, according to the Times. If you're a Google Translate user that description probably sounds a little confusing; Translate can already listen to your speech and transcribe it into any number of languages in near real-time.
Google's app cannot, however, automatically detect what language you're speaking. Instead, you have to tell Translate which language you're starting with and which language you want your speech translated into. The best guess, then, is that Google plans to automatically detect a spoken starting language the way it does with written text right now. It's also possible that Translate may automatically detect when you're speaking without having to press the microphone button.
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