Skype Translator is still in preview mode after around a year and a half in beta – and four years in development – but the team has announced a new milestone for its real-time natural language processing tool as Arabic goes live on the service. Along with Chinese, Arabic is one of the most complex languages in the world to learn, so this is no mean feat, and comes at a time when hundreds of thousands of refugees are arriving in Europe from war torn parts of the Middle East. There are almost 300 million Arabic speakers worldwide, particularly in the Middle East and North…
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