Windows mobile phone Universal translator is not new concept . It comes as an inspiration from Google, Microsoft started to develop a new technology for mobile phone that can translate your speech from one language to another.
Microsoft demonstrated a prototype of their new technology during the annual Tech Fest. The prototype is listening to everything that is said in a telephone interview, and convert it to text, so in almost real time can be translated automatically into another language. Read windows 7 phone
Ultimately, this will open up the opportunity that you can call anyone on earth and speak to them in their own language. You will be able to pick up the receiver and call for example. France, speaking in Danish on the phone, which will shortly after the Frenchman at the other end to hear a translation in French of what you just said. When he returned correspond in French, you will even hear it in Danish.
The technology is still limited by the fact that there is machine translation of the interview and that it would be a synthetic voice that reads the translation up.