The social networking giant recent acquisition may help building a strong connection among users despite language barriers.

Facebook recently announced that is has bought the technology and team of Pittsburgh’s Mobile Technologies, a voice recognition and speech translation developer which created the speech-to-speech translation application for Android and Apple mobile devices Jibbigo. With the translation of voice search to News Feed posts, Facebook will surely profit a lot with this technology.

Jibbigo, which was released in 2009, permits you to choose from more than 25 languages, type in some words and then get a translated version shown in your screen and read loudly to you in your chosen language or record a voice clip in that language. With this kind of ability, Facebook promises to continue supporting the Jibbigo app for the mean time.

Tom Stocky, Facebook’s director of product management, said in a post, “Voice technology has become an increasingly important way for people to navigate mobile devices and the web, and this technology will help us evolve our products to match that evolution. We believe this acquisition is an investment in our long-term product roadmap as we continue towards our company's mission.”

This made Jibbigo’s Android and iOS apps helpful companions for voyagers and international health care providers. Through offline translator packs that you can buy online, who would need to bring dictionaries, translators and phrase book. This Jibbigo app profited a lot by letting users comprehend foreign speech withour the need for an internet connection.

Facebook said their engineering teams in Menlo Park will work together with members of the Mobile Technologies’ team, entailing that some might not be included in the social network’s ranks, as reported by Techcrunch.

However, Facebook denied identifying precisely the number of people joining the social network from Mobile Technologies which was established in 2001, or even the terms and conditions of the deal. Bearing in mind that it had never raised outside funding, the acquisition is most likely a sizable financial win for Mobile Technologies' founder.