Skype Translator Coming To Windows Desktop Client Late Summer

[exfileme]

Skype will support four spoken languages and 50 instant messaging languages.

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[Vlad Rose]

Good luck with that since I know translation between English and Mandarin is spotty at best through any current translator program out there. I don't believe skype's will be much different. At least the tech will be there and continue to improve.

English to Spanish/Italian should be much better though since they're all latin based.

 

[Dr_b_]

English isn't latin based.

 

[WilliamChan4]

English isn't latin based.

Latin Characters.

 

[Vlad Rose]

You're right, Old English is Germanic based. However 29% of modern English is Latin influenced, with another 29% Germanic, 29% French influenced, and the rest being of other European languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_influence_in_English

 

[Jake Hall]

Your mom is latin-based

 

[aldaia]

Even if some English words have a latin influence, English grammar is very different from latin languages. Automatic translators do a mediocre work when translating from English to Spanis/Italian or viceversa. Of course they do even worse with Chinese (which has nothing to do with the use of latin characters). The only case where translators do a good job is translating Spanish to/from Italian.
But in that case no translator is needed, spaniards and italians can understand eachother without the need of translators.

 

[jaber2]

As long as it requires 4 steps to translate it will always be inaccurate and slow, it has to be in 2 steps just like how we do it, listen translate.