The translation feature for the Internet-calling service now speaks the languages of Beijing and Rome. But the translator is still available only in preview mode. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Microsoft started accepting applications for a preview version of Skype Translator last November before going live a month later. Up to this point, the real-time translation feature only supported ...

Skype Translator, Microsoft's real time voice and text translator tool, has been turning Mandarin into expletive-filled English. The glitch, which is being blamed on how the Great Firewall routinely ...

Microsoft has today posted a video, and complementary explanation of language translation that goes far past what we thought was currently possible. In the video, the speaker explains and demonstrates ...

The latest release of Skype Translator, Microsoft’s live-translation service, can now translate spoken conversations in Mandarin and Italian. The update doubles the program’s spoken languages since ...

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