Skype adds support for Italian and Mandarin real-time chat translation

Skype announced today today that it has added Italian and Mandarin to its short list of supported languages on its real-time Translator service for voice and video chat. The company launched a preview of Skype Translator for registered Windows users last December, with support for English and Spanish. In addition to the two new languages, updates to the preview include a few interesting features designed to make translated conversations feel more natural. For starters, you can now hear your chat partner speak continually at a low volume while the translation plays at full volume. You can also mute the translated…



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