Skype Translator: Breaking down language barriers

Peter Lee, Microsoft Research corporate vice president, shares insights and a sneak peek into the Skype Translator, derived from decades of research in speechrecognition, automatictranslation, and machinelearning technologies. Skype Translator is being developed jointly by the Skype and Microsoft Research teams, and combines voice and IM technologies with Microsoft Translator along with neuralnetworkbased speech recognition to deliver nearrealtime crosslingual communication. With the Skype Translato