


At that time the Skype Translator Preview had the ability to translate over 40 written languages in the messaging side of Skype and Microsoft also opened up access to the preview so that anyone could use it.

In April they expanded the language palette of the preview by adding spoken Italian and Mandarin Chinese to Spanish and English which was already available in the preview. Then back in December of last year the Skype Translator Preview finally went public but required a sign up process which gated users into the preview slowly over time. We first saw Skype Translator in a public demo on the Re/code stage last May when Satya Nadella wowed the crowd with the real time translation features.
