Though it still seems a bit like science fiction, we’ve reached the day where we can speak or type into our smartphones and have an artificial intelligence interpreter translate our speech or text ...

Today’s language translation apps are like self-driving cars: incredibly useful, promising, nearing maturity, and almost entirely powered by machines. It's astonishing that the technology even exists.

When Google Translate was released, in 2006, I was an eighth grader stumbling through introductory Spanish, and my teacher had little reason to worry about her students using it to cheat. It’s almost ...

Imagine you are in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language and your small child unexpectedly starts to have a fever seizure. You take them to the hospital, and the doctors use an online ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Names translated as months of the year, incorrect time frames and mixed-up pronouns - the everyday failings of AI-driven translation apps are causing ...

Machine learning has made its way into nearly every industry, and game localization is no exception. Software providers claim that their machine translation products mark a new era in localization, ...

With at least 6,000 different languages spoken around the globe, there's always a chance you'll meet people or travel to a destination who don't speak the same language as you. Sure, you can always ...