Cisco’s Webex platform adds real-time translation from English to Hebrew and another 100 languages

Cisco has announced an upgrade to Webex, the company’s multi-participant video calling platform, which gets a new and significant feature especially for users around the world – a real-time translation system that allows you to translate what is said in English into more than 100 different languages. Including Hebrew, a new option that is expected to improve the work ability of its users by lowering the language barrier.

Cisco’s Webex platform is one of a variety of existing multiplayer video calling platforms, platforms that have received particularly significant acceleration during the Corona era, such as Zoom’s immense popularity among many users. Cisco’s Webex platform is a dedicated solution for the business sector, which gives the new instant translation feature greater importance.

This is not a completely new feature of the company, but a significant upgrade, which has increased the possibility of translation from only about 10 languages ​​to over 100, including more common languages ​​such as Arabic, Russian, Japanese, German and more and less common languages ​​such as Turkish, Vietnamese and Hebrew . This is expected to allow the company’s business users to communicate better and more efficiently with each other without the need to use external translation solutions, with the system even being able to transcribe what is said in English for users with disabilities.

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The new translation option on Webex into Hebrew (PR source)

Oren Sagi, CEO of Cisco Israel, said:

The new features of the WEBEX system help create a global playing field without restrictions for businesses and people all over the globe and here in Israel the calls are also accessible to people with disabilities by transcribing in real time what was said during the meetings. From today, working conversations with partners and clients from abroad will be simpler, more accessible and will enable efficient, effective and flexible management of international joint work.

Real-time translation technology is another step towards the technological and business future, it is a significant step in the globalization of all fields and will allow many Israeli businesses to make the leap from the national field to the international field. Artificial intelligence technology plays an integral role in the hybrid work model that has become inseparable from our lives and enables a smart, good and pleasant customer and user experience.

Webex’s new real-time translation technology will be available in an early version as early as this month, with full availability expected during the coming month of May.

Cisco technology is designed to bypass one of the largest barriers in existence today, the language barrier. With the option to translate from English to 100 different languages, including Hebrew, which is expected to make it easier for users in Israel to use the company’s video calling service.