A US software designer plans to harness the brains of the world’s computer users to build a multilingual translation database. Brian McConnell believes it could provide a free way to translate the ...

Translation is that space where language, culture, history, politics, and incommensurable difference all collide and sometimes cohere to make sense. At a time of intensive globalization, when cultures ...

Artificial intelligence-powered translation is becoming an increasingly crowded category, with Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook all working on their own services. But tech still isn’t a match ...

A new study co-authored by an MIT economist shows that improved translation software can significantly boost international trade online—a notable case of machine learning having a clear impact on ...

Software that translates one human language into another. Live translate programs are invaluable when traveling in a foreign land. People just have to speak in their native language, and the software ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) isn’t known for thinking small, and DARPA has turned its attention (and budget) to a massive task: developing a set of software engines that can ...

"You want to become a translator? But AI can do everything now, can't it?" Clarisse Beretta has lost count of how many times she has heard this kind of remark since she started at the European ...

IN “STAR TREK” it was a hand-held Universal Translator; in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” it was the Babel Fish popped conveniently into the ear. In science fiction, the meeting of distant ...

Ventura will continue providing Spanish interpretation of live meetings and translation of agendas for the City Council after a pilot program. The City Council voted unanimously on Monday to keep the ...