Microsoft-owned Skype Translator for Windows is now officially released on Thursday with six spoken languages.

USA Today reports that more than 3 billion video and voice calls are made by Skype users everyday. But if the users do not have the same language, Skyping would be put to waste.

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It will help in solving language barriers. It works with six spoken languages: English, German, Mandarin, French, Italian, and Spanish. It promises the users with real-time translations.

Microsoft Translator powered the service with the basis of Deep Neural Networks. A preview mode on this Translator was last December. Because of this, Microsoft's work becomes effective in the areas of natural language processing, machine learning, and speech recognition. Fifty instant messaging languages are provided in translations.

During its preview period, many have tried the Translator. Among them are a PhD student that needed help from experts in other countries on his thesis, a nonprofit worker that united donors from around the world, and an owner that has a small business and needs communication with his suppliers.

Skype Translator for desktop is downloaded thru www.skype.com. It only works on Windows 7, 8, and 10 PCs. Audio and headset setting should be properly configured. A new translate button on the upper right of the conversation window is seen. A contact is chosen to make a call. A globe icon is tapped or clicked. The languages selected depend on both users. An advisory will verbalize to let the user speak clearly once gabbing through the headset microphone. Then similar to a close caption under the video will appear. It will subtitle the conversation live and read those subtitles aloud. Unfortunately, proper names or the names of smaller towns and villages may not be translated. Only the one calling has to be on Windows for the translation to work. But if the person called is not on Windows, a translated audio and no text will be seen as verbalized by a Microsoft representative according to NBC News.

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