Microsoft's Skype, the video and voice call service, is in the preview stage and is to be made open to the public later this year. The service offers real time text and voice translation, although currently the preview only allows voice translations between English and Spanish, over 40 languages are supported as text translations. Microsoft is marketing the product as a translator tool for schools, Skype is already used by teachers to hold class conferences with children from other countries, and Microsoft wishes to expand this practice to more countries and nationalities. The preview is currently compatible with Windows 8.1 and preview copies of Windows 10. The translator is of course not perfect, Darren Orf from Gizmodo.com tested out the program and noted that while the speech recognition was very accurate, as the words per minute number increases the recognition's quality can decrease. Orf also noted that the translations can be rather broken, and for someone who has no knowledge of the language in which they are being spoken, it can be difficult to decipher what the translator is attempting to say.
You can take a look at Darren Orf's before-mentioned article in which he covers many of the nooks and crannies of the preview program, You may check that out with this link: http://gizmodo.com/skype-translator-hands-on-close-but-no-babel-fish-1671457117
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