Microsoft is broadening its Skype Translator preview to include all Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 users.

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it has removed the sign-up requirement to try out the feature, which lets you have a conversation with someone over the Internet who speaks a different language. Now, anyone who wants to try it out can download the Skype Translator preview app from the Windows Store and use it right away, no waiting or sign-up necessary.

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Currently, Skype Translator supports English to and from Chinese (Mandarin), Italian and Spanish. Microsoft is encouraging testers to use it with these languages.

Besides the four spoken languages, Skype translator offers support for 50 languages when you're instant messaging. With the IM feature, you can write a message in your language and the recipient will receive it in theirs.

"The Skype Translator preview is only available for speech translation in the following languages (to and from English): Spanish, Italian and Chinese (Mandarin). We also have 50 IM languages available. The list of languages that you have noticed on the sign-up page (which includes German and French) are languages in which the Skype Translator client is available - i.e. localization of the app for translation of the languages that are currently available,” a clarification provided by a Microsoft spokesperson regarding the testing part of the open preview.

Microsoft said it has received "excellent feedback" from early adopters since releasing the Skype Translator preview.

Skype Translator, a real-time voice/video translation service, has been available to selected testers only since late 2014.

Microsoft has been working on real-time speech translation for more than three years.

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