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In January, Google added real-time Japanese translation capabilities to its World Lens app, a favorite among travelers. Microsoft isn’t the only American technology company trying to break down language barriers between English and Japanese speakers. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s TrueText technology polishes up redundant words, filler sounds and other quirks to improve the overall quality of the translated speech. The company’s machine translation AI translates each word in context of the full sentence, producing output sentences that sound more fluent than word-for-word translations. It also uses Microsoft’s TrueText natural language processing technology and a text to speech synthesizer which enables users to hear, and not only read, the translation, according to Microsoft. Skype Translator uses two neural-network based Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies: Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation, according to Microsoft. Adding to the challenge is a vocabulary and grammatical structure that is completely different from English, making it difficult for English-speakers to learn, according to the software giant. “Speech translation is a hard problem to solve, as is always the case when machines are trying to mimic a deeply human capability,” stated a Microsoft in an April 6 blog post. Japanese language supports is not only a milestone for Skype Translator, but also for Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies. The other languages are English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian and Spanish. This enables automatic translation services for Japanese speakers who conduct video and voice calls with other Skype users speaking in any of the nine other languages. Microsoft has added Japanese to the mix, bringing the total number of supported languages to 10. The company announced this week that Skype Translator, the real-time speech translation service included with the popular communications software, hit a significant milestone. Microsoft wants Skype to be the world’s interpreter.