Skype breaks the language barrier with real-time translation for mobile and landline calls

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by Sindy Cator on December 12, 2016 at 2:25 pm

Skype is making it easier to break the language barrier. In a new blog post, the company announced it’s extending its real-time translation feature to support mobile and landline calls – even if the caller on the other side doesn’t have Skype. The Microsoft-owned video chat service initially introduced its Star Trek-like ‘Translator’ functionality back in 2014, but has been steadily improving on it since then, eventually opening it up to all users later in 2015. But until now, ‘Translator’ remained available solely for Skype-to-Skype calls. Still, not everyone will be able to take advantage of the new feature. For one, you’ll…