![]() ![]() Skype announced the new account type - Professional Account - freelancers and online entrepreneurs, that give online lessons, tutoring and consulting. The feature will work best for those who record video chats with other remote guests – like for a weekly call-in show – but it can also work for calls that are live streamed to other platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.Ģ017. This will allow digital broadcasters, streamers, and vloggers to record videos, podcasts and live streaming calls without having to invest in expensive studio equipment. Microsoft has developed a new mode “Skype for Content Creators” will allow desktop users to place and record calls using Skype desktop software, which can either be streamed live or imported into other apps for further editing before posting. Skype adds new feature for recording video calls The calls will be recorded in the cloud and everyone in the call will be notified the call is being recorded, for privacy’s sake and for legal reasons.Ģ018. Besodes, Skype is adding built-in call recording. Messages and notifications in these conversations will also be hidden in the chat list to keep the communication private. The calls will be secured by the industry standard Signal Protocol. Microsoft today is launching Skype 8.0 version for desktop that adds support of HD (1080px video) video calls which can include up to 24 people, as well as the Twitter-inspired Later this summer it will also get end-to-end encryption for Skype audio calls, text messages, and shared files like images, audio and video. Skype 8.0 adds HD video, encryption & call recording Skype also toned down its over-the-top use of color in the app and introduced a Skype “Classic” blue theme adjusted for contrast and readability.Ģ018. With the new desktop version of Skype, the company now says it’s moving the Chats, Calls, Contacts, and Notifications to the top left of the window to make it easier for long-time Skype users to understand. Instead, the app is introducing a simpler navigation model where there are now just three buttons at the bottom of the mobile app – Chats, Calls, and Contacts. Now Microsoft admitted that the changes it had introduced weren’t working. The redesign had been met with a lot of backlash. Last year Skype introduced a colorful, Snapchat-inspired makeover which included its own version of "stories". Specifically, Skype will soon allow you to scroll through the captions in a side window.Ģ018. Once turned on, they will auto-scroll during the call, but Microsoft says it’s working to offer other viewing options in the future. In Skype subtitles will be available in one-to-one video-calls. Presenters will be able to customize the appearance of subtitles to match a presentation, and the speech recognition should adapt for more accurate terminology based on context. Live captions and subtitles will support 12 spoken languages and display on-screen in more than 60 different languages. The subtitles also allow speakers to include a translation of a presentation. The new feature allows those who are deaf or hard of hearing to read the words that are spoken during presentations in PowerPoint or video calls in Skype. PowerPoint and Skype are getting real-time captions and subtitles in 2019. Skype and PowerPoint got real-time subtitles It can be enabled in Skype’s settings or from the video call button inside the service.Ģ018. The feature is rolling out to Skype for desktop, the web and mobile, although it doesn’t support all devices yet. That also means it will detect features such as hair, hands and arms. Skype said that the feature - which is similar to the blurring added to Microsoft Teams last year - uses artificial intelligence to keep the focus on the caller. ![]() It's screen-blurring feature designed to obscure your messy room or any other background details that you’d rather weren’t on display to the other party on the line. Skype added a new feature that might raise its appeal among users. Skype can now blur the background during video calls ![]() And another tap brings all the controls back.Ģ019. A second tap dismisses all the controls to make the video call itself the focus. Also new in this release of Skype for mobile is a redesigned calling screen that now lets you dismiss the call controls with one tap. This is where you’ll find other recently launched features, as well, including call recording and subtitles. ![]() To access the option, Skype users will tap the newly added “…” (more) menu in the app. More practically, it could be used to give remote tech help. The feature could be used for work-related purposes, as Microsoft has suggested in the past - like sharing a PowerPoint presentation. Skype announced on Tuesday that its mobile screen sharing feature now allows both iOS and Android users to share their phone’s screen while on a call. ![]()
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