Language barriers are coming down. Microsoft just launched an API for real-time, multilingual translation. It even uses your own voice.
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Skype's real-time translator tool now supports additional languages. The voice translator can now handle Italian and Mandarin on top of the already supported English and Spanish.
Famous actor and passionate technology fan George Takei, recently visited Microsoft in Seattle and got to try out Skype's upcoming real-time Translator as well as see a few other company projects.
After being unveiled at the beginning of the year Skype Translator is now almost ready for public preview. Sign-up to try its real-time voice and video translation capabilities.
