I&#x27;m not sure &quot;niche&quot; is a good characterization of the skype translator (assuming the quality is high enough to be more than a novelty toy).<p>Such a tool might revolutionize international, distributed workforces.  With a sufficiently good translator, an engineering firm in the US might quintuple the set of people in the world who are suitable to work for them.<p>Or maybe not. I&#x27;m no futurologist.