Skype has just announced that its Translator feature will be available for all users on the Windows platform starting today. This move comes within a year after Skype launched a Translator preview in partnership with Microsoft Translator.
They have shared a few facts with us to showcase the popularity of the feature. French to English is the most popular language pair to be translated and the most international Skype Translator calling corridor is from Germany to Ghana.
Ever since the introduction of the translator feature, the number of calls per day has increased by 400%. There are seven voice-to-voice translation languages supported such as Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. There is also text-to-text translation available for 50 different languages via IM.
To use the Translator feature, click on the Globe in the upper right hand corner. If you don’t have this icon in your Skype window, then make sure to update your Skype to the latest version available.