Microsoft has launched a preview of its exciting new feature of real time operating Skype Translator that can translate the conversations from more than 40 languages. Initially available on Windows 8.1 PCs and tablets and only in Spanish and English, the Skype Translator will display an on-screen transcript of the call. Microsoft is expected to make the service available across a wide variety of devices and operating systems over time. Skype Translator lets users have live voice conversations across different languages. When one users speaks, a computerized voice delivers the translation to the other user. A transcription also appears in a sidebar next to the main video chat window. Microsoft says it's spent 10 years researching the technology, which relies on machine learning to tell the difference between words like “they're