Skype, Language Line Services, and Voxeo, announced today a joint solution that makes it easy for businesses and individuals to communicate cost-effectively from English into more than 150 languages (www.languageline.com/skype). It leverages Skype's VoIP for inexpensive calling, Language Line Services for personal interpreter/translation services, and Voxeo for the telephony piece. To interface to the Skype Network, Language Line Services has partnered with Voxeo Corporation using Voxeo's Prophecy voice platform to automate the process of transferring the call from Skype to Language Line Services. The service gives Skype users the ability to talk to anyone, anywhere in the world regardless of language. Of course if they had Star Trek's universal translator this Skype translation business wouldn't be necessary.
Skype subscribers can be on the phone in up to a five-way conversation with other Skype users and a live, professional Language Line Services interpreter. They operate 24x7, 365 days a year. Language Line Personal Interpreter uses a pay-as-you-go service model charging $2.99 USD per minute. Interpreter costs are automatically charged to the caller's SkypeOut balance. Forget Paypal, pretty soon, everything will be paid in SkypeOut credits.
Skype subscribers can be on the phone in up to a five-way conversation with other Skype users and a live, professional Language Line Services interpreter. They operate 24x7, 365 days a year. Language Line Personal Interpreter uses a pay-as-you-go service model charging $2.99 USD per minute. Interpreter costs are automatically charged to the caller's SkypeOut balance. Forget Paypal, pretty soon, everything will be paid in SkypeOut credits.
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Happy to announce that the The ULRTMT - Skype Version 2.5 Beta "Universal Language Real-Time Message Translator" now supports:
Real Time Chat Language Translation!
Yes, you can now chat with others in your own native language and have your text translated in "Real-Time". Both your sent and received chat messages.
The following Language Translations in Real-Time for Skype Chats are:
English to Arabic BETA
English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA
English to Chinese Traditional
English to Dutch
English to French
English to German
English to Greek
English to Italian
English to Japanese BETA
English to Korean BETA
English to Portuguese
English to Russian
English to Spanish
Arabic to English
Chinese (Simplified) BETA to English
Chinese Traditional to English
Dutch to English
Dutch to French
French to Dutch
French to English
French to German
French to Greek
French to Italian
French to Portuguese
French to Spanish
German to English
German to French
Greek to English
Greek to French
Italian to English
Italian to French
Japanse to English Beta
Korean to English Beta
Portuguese to English
Portuguese to French
Russian to English
Spanish to English
Spanish to French
All of the above translations work in Real-time using Skype Chats
More info here: http://testing.onlytherightanswers.com
And what about soziety.com ?
(they leverage Skype to help people learn other languages)
It sounds like a great idea, but it it requires one to know the other persons language without doing some manual translation. I also could not get the chat feature to work, so not sure how that would function.
The nice thing about the chat translator is many people using different languages can be in the same Skype chat as long as they use a common output language. So technically, as one example, you could have 14 different people using 14 different languages, all in the same Skype chat. Additionally, if you download the voice for a specific language, you can also not only learn to read and write, but you can also learn to speak that language as well.
By creating a chat with ECHO123, the Skype test call contact name in your Skype contacts list, you can practice, any of the 14 languages you wish, without the need of another person as well if needed.
The Translator is FREE and now a Skype Extra, and can be found by Simply clicking on the Skype Client Tools -> Do More - > Get Extras. Once the Extras window opens, simply click the productivity link on the left, and click "Speak and Translate Chats".
I wish this new site well, anything to help with language barriers is a GREAT thing.