Introduction to Skype

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translation is supported by Skype. In this way, users can talk continuously without interruption while Skype is doing the instant translation in the background. The volume of users and Skype Translator can be adjusted according to users’ preferences. For instance, they can choose to mute the instant translator, or choose to listen to the voice translation in a high volume. Until today, the instant voice translation of English, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin Chinese is supported by Skype.

Instant Translation of Skype has combined Microsoft’s latest voice recognition technology with neutral network technology. The ultimate goal of Skype Translator is to provide wonderful voice translation experiences for all its users over the world.

Other Value-Added Features

Beside the basic services, Skype also provides many value-added services. SkypeIn and SkypeOut provide the user to make incoming and outgoing calls in any of the place from anyone with simply a Skype account. The charge of this services is lower than making traditional distant call as it uses Internet as the transmission media. In addition, Skype has provided many services for business users. Skype Connect is Skype’s business solution for enterprises. It has achieved the objective of private branch exchange system and unified communication in corporation. Together with the business software, many peripheral devices such as Skype video phone and Skype enterprise gateway are developed for corporations.

Strengths of Skype

As compared to other similar software, Skype has several outstanding strengths. Firstly, Skype has a rather easy installation process. It does not require any additional system environment and server settings. Furthermore, the use of software is easy. For other VoIP application software, users who are not familiar with Internet and computer technology can hardly use the software. However, for Skype, users do not to do any manual setting. They just need to register an account, install the software and login to start using. Secondly, communicate through Skype is very safe. Skype works behind most of firewall and network gateway, so there is no new security risks produced. Moreover, for security purposes, the communication is encrypted, with a strict privacy policy. Thirdly, Skype has a high quality voice. The technology of Skype is developed by best acoustic scientists, so the voice quality is higher than fix-line phone voice quality. Technically speaking, from traditional phone service, users can only hear the voice with frequency between 300Hz to 3000Hz, whereas in Skype, you can hear all the voice. Fourthly, group voice and video chat is supported by Skype. Skype is the first one to support group voice chat. The technology of mixing is used to ease the operation process and improve the voice quality, as well as save the network and machine resources of the client. Lastly, Skype has a very open system, to allow Internet users to develop their own plugins. In this way, it has given Skype higher flexibility and expansibility. This has attracted many users for Skype and give it higher competition power in the market.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Skype is a high quality instant messaging and communication software for both individual users and business users. It has provided functionalities such as instant text messaging, global voice and video call, instant translation and many other value-added services. Compare to traditional telephone communication and other similar software, Skype has the advantages of easy to use and install, safe communication, high quality voice, advanced group voice and video chat technology and its openness. Internet telephone technology is at its early stage of development. With so many intriguing features and strengths, Skype will be continue to lead the development and innovation in this field, which maybe far beyond anyone’s imagination