to Avoid any misunderstandings or practicing a language different from their own by Skype from now on will be easier. The service from Microsoft has announced the introduction of captions in live for the calls audio and video. The function is already available both for face to face conversations as well as for the group in the last version of the program. The platform ensures that the new option is designed especially to facilitate the conversations to people who have problems with listening.
To activate the function, it is sufficient to press on the sign of the sum, located below the center in the version for mobile devices or at the bottom right in the desktop version, and later give voice to Activate subtitles. To clear it, will that accomplish the same step and select Disable subtitles. It is also possible to choose that the service is put into function automatically every time you make or receive a call. For that, you need to select the own profile picture and after the functions, Settings, calls, Captions call, and finally Display subtitles for all calls, audio and video.
According to has been able to verify THE COUNTRY, Sahabet is displayed on the screen by writing what he utters each of the partners of the conversation. The artificial intelligence system that automatically generates the captioning captures the words in the chosen language as the language of the program. If you pronounce a phrase of a well articulated, the results will be discrete. However, moving the user to another language, the service will not replicate in writing what was said.
Skype explains that now subtitles are displayed automatically as you progress through the conversation, but that in future it will be possible to retrieve the transcript of the entire call. It also intends to incorporate “in the coming weeks,” a service of translation of the subítulos valid for “more than 20 languages and dialects”, according to a post published on the official blog of the software.
So you see the subtitles on Skype.
The platform of video calls, announced the new this Monday on the occasion of the international day of persons with disabilities. “Skype has worked hard to make our functions more inclusive”, says in the same post. “The subtitles in direct are just one of the ways for calls through our service more accessible”.
Skype for a long time a function of automatic translation of conversations, vocal and textual. Translates calls in 13 languages and text messages to 50. With this function enabled, when expressing a sentence in one of the available languages, both orally and in writing, this service will play in the language that has been chosen to translate through an automated voice, male or female, and also verbatim in the section of the chat.
