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NEW YORK—Skype users collectively make more than 3 billion video and voice calls on a daily basis. But Skyping isn’t very meaningful if you and the other person don’t speak the same language. On ...

Skype Translator may be the biggest advancement in real-time language translation since the babelfish on “Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.” The app, currently in a limited trial for Windows 8.1 and ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has been previewing its impressive real-time translation for ...

Users of Skype's Translator software can now chat with people in French or German. In a blog post published Thursday, Yasmin Khan, who handles marketing for Microsoft's Internet-calling service, ...

Very soon now, a select group of Skype beta testers will have a new Microsoft technology that seems borrowed from the world of Star Trek. It's called the Skype Translator---a Skype add-on that listens ...

Microsoft announced today that its Skype Translator — a tool that automatically translates your speech into text and computer-generated speech — now supports Arabic. So Skype Translator now speaks a ...

Skype Translator is being rolled out today supporting six voice languages. — -- Speaking just one language no longer has to be a barrier to global communication. Skype Translator, Microsoft's ...

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If you were geared up about that Skype Translator that Microsoft announced a year ago, but weren't a fan of the signup process, then today is your lucky day ... well, that is, as long as you own a ...

Not content with enabling free, cross-continental video conversations, Microsoft has now moved to break down language barriers and make conversing with our international friends even more convenient.

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...