Skype Begins Offering Fee-based Live Translation Service in 150 Languages

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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.

Interpreter costs will be automatically charged against your SkypeOut balance, so please be sure you have enough funds in your account to cover your anticipated Personal Interpreter usage charges. Charges begin at the time the call is placed and end when you hang up.

As the world’s largest and only global language services provider…Language Line® Services has lead the Over-the-Phone Interpreter industry for 20 years with innovative award winning language service offerings, combined with state-of-the-art technology…makes Language Line® Services the best option whenever you need over-the-phone interpreter services, anytime, anywhere in the world.

Everyday, virtually all of Fortune 500 multinational corporations, and businesses of all sizes around the world depend on Language Line® Services to assist them in communicating to ALL customers, in the language they understand…their own.

Now by using SkypeOut, this service is available to individuals and small businesses around the globe.

If you need to dialout the a non-English speaking person, or another party, you can add on both Skype contacts and SkypeOut contacts to a conference call between you, the interpreter and the non-English speaker by just using your Skype Conference Calling feature. If you’re actually face to face with the non-English speaker, just use your computer’s microphone and speakers, or pass the handset back and forth. The Language Line interpreter will relay your information back and forth between you and the person you’d like to communicate with, in the language of your choice.

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