Google Chases Microsoft with Beefed-up Translate Speech Tools

Microsoft spent the last half of 2014 getting everyone excited about Skype Translator,  a new technology that translates real-time conversations between two people speaking different languages over Skype. The new feature went into an invite-only preview in December.
Not to be left behind, Google recently let slip to The New York Times that it intends to beef up the spoken translation chops of Google Translate for Android and (presumably) iOS.To read this article in full or to leave a commen