The Skype Translator preview app works in English, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin for spoken word, and in 50 languages for IM conversations. Both provide near real-time translation, with the IM ...

Starting in late summer 2015, Microsoft will be integrating the preview of its Skype Translator real-time translation service into the desktop versions of its Skype application on Windows PCs.

Microsoft has been working on its real-time voice translator for Skype for some time and has let it out in bits and pieces. Well, the full Skype Translator is now live for all Windows desktop users.

Anyone who wants to take Microsoft’s Skype Translator program for a spin can now download it for free to their Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 PC without having to go through a sign-up process. In the past, ...

Skype’s automatic voice translation tool is one of those technologies that just makes you feel like you’re in the future, but having to download a separate app to use it is a little inconvenient. That ...

Your Star Trek-style universal communicator is ready for download. Well, it’s not exactly universal, but Microsoft’s Skype Translator Preview is a step into the ...

Skype snuck an interesting new feature into its preview build of the Skype Windows Store app late last week. The new version of Skype Preview can now perform real-time spoken word translations via ...

Skype Translator is one of those technologies that makes you stop and say “woah, future.” A mythical service that can translate your speech in seamless real time, with accompanying transcripts, could ...

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 ...

A post in Skype Journal has led me to a review of a free utility entitled Universal Chat Translator for Skype. That link, by the way, was to a direct download for this utility. The review, which is ...

The future is now, and it's pretty amazing. In May 2014, communications app company Skype began early preview testing a fancy new upgrade to its product — a translation system — hoping to bring its ...

Skype Translator now has two additional spoken languages in the form of German and French. The two languages join English, Italian, Spanish and Mandarin, along with 50 other instant messaging ...