Microsoft is planning to release a new technology by the end of 2016 that is capable of translating multilingual conversations in real-time.

The company revealed that the latest application will support several languages including French, German, and English. A demo of a prototype of the app involving three speakers has been conducted by the tech giant. During the demonstration, each user had a mobile application displaying written translated texts in real-time.

The Microsoft Future Decoded event held in London featured a conversation transcript showing Chinese and Klingon, a fictional language. The demo showed that speech recognition did not always work. A representative of Microsoft revealed that the service is being improved for its forthcoming preview release at which time it will support nine spoken languages and 60 others to be translated on text.

The Director of Microsoft Translator Product Strategy, Olivier Fortana, said that "everybody has a smart device, a smartphone or a tablet. What if we could harness the power of those smart devices to enable real-time, multilingual conversation translation for an in-person situation?" An offline translation engine is also part of the new technology.

The existing mobile translator only translates messages from two speakers.

The latest version of the Microsoft Translator will be released for web browsers and mobile operating systems Android, iOS and Windows.