Skype now offers real time translation

I saw this on TechCrunch tonight:

Language Line? Personal Interpreter” href=”http://share.skype.com/directory/%3Cb%3Elanguage_line%c2%ae_personal_interpreter%3C%10b%3E/view/”>Share Skype - Language Line? Personal Interpreter

Do You Need An Interpreter Now?

Introducing…Language Line? “Personal Interpreter” Service.

Be on the phone with an interpreter within seconds. Now all Skype subscribers can have immediate access to live, high-quality professional interpreters, who speak over 150 languages.

Whether for business or personal use, our “Personal Interpreter” pay-as-you-go service allows quick and easy access highly skilled & certified interpreters in more than 150 languages directly from your Skype phone, for only $2.99 USD per minute. Service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Wow that’s pretty remarkable! The list of support languages is pretty wild too!

1. Spanish
2. Mandarin
3. Russian
4. Vietnamese
5. Korean
6. Cantonese
7. Portuguese
8. Polish
9. French
10. Japanese
11. Arabic
12. Somali
13. Farsi
14. Haitian Creole
15. Italian
16. Hmong
17. German
18. Armenian
19. Tagalog
20. Hindi
21. Khmer
22. Bosnian
23. Punjabi
24. Bengali
25. Turkish
26. Amharic
27. Laotian
28. Albanian
29. Thai
30. Urdu

Whoa! They even have someone who speaks Hmong. There aren’t that many hmong speaking people.