 The next step confrontation leading global IT giants can touch interpreters speech. The company Google after Microsoft decided to create a service that will be able in real time to translate it from 1 language to another.
According to The New York Times, Google Translate in the foreseeable future you may receive simultaneous translation of speech, some augmented reality. The main advantage of the novelty is that now users will be able to translate foreign speech in real time, and function replacement of the text labels in the world will work with capture by the camera, for example, road signs. This unique text will be replaced by the translation right on the mark, creating the effect of augmented reality.
The service will be included in the updated version of Google Translate for Android devices and is oriented generally at travelers, entrepreneurs, doing business with foreign partners, and people who study foreign languages. Spoken words will be captured by the application on the fly without having to wait for the completion of the phrase.
The service function of the translation of the inscriptions in the world is the current development of startup Quest Visual, which was bought by Google in early may of last year. In its asset - Word Lens Android, Google Glass and iOS, which IT giant made free "for a limited time".
In early may of last year, Microsoft has announced that it will embed the function of simultaneous voice translation in the Skype app. Already in early December, the function of Skype Translator was opened for testing a limited number of users. However, as it became known after the first studies, it was poorly managed with short sentences, the translation superimposed on an unusual speech, which complicated the perception of the conversation.
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The next step confrontation leading global IT giants can touch interpreters speech. The company Google after Microsoft decided to create a service that will be able in real time to translate it from 1 language to another. 
