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kerateo
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30 May 2014 at 3:29am | IP Logged

I know most of you think this is impossible. I'm optimistic, I give it 50 years...
Interesting when he says the future is now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/28/microsoft-skype-tra nslator_n_5405904.html
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Darklight1216
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31 May 2014 at 12:44am | IP Logged

A coworker told me about this the other day. I was surprised by the fact that I didn't
feel threatened at all.

It will be interesting to see if it can actually work at normal conversational speed (in
each of the languages and for each person's dialect and personality etc).
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Iversen
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31 May 2014 at 12:33pm | IP Logged

Ironically it might give national languages a longer lease of life, but language learning will suffer. And minority languages which aren't on the list of supported languages will become even more peripheral.
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drygramul
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31 May 2014 at 12:41pm | IP Logged

If it's anything like Bing translator, there's nothing to fear.
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EnglishEagle
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31 May 2014 at 2:01pm | IP Logged

I don't know the right word to describe it... maybe somewhat robotic?
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Darklight1216
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31 May 2014 at 2:31pm | IP Logged

drygramul wrote:

If it's anything like Bing translator, there's nothing to fear.

Google would probably do a bit better, in my opinion.

I didn't realize that Skype was owned by Microsoft now (although I certainly should
have, in hindsight).

Iversen wrote:

Ironically it might give national languages a longer lease of life,
but language learning will suffer. And minority languages which aren't on the list
of supported languages will become even more peripheral.

I hadn't thought about it like that. If it works out like that, we language learners
might become more celebrated due to increasing rarity.

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