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.

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Agentic AI tools can translate more than just words — they can also incorporate video and audio sources to further refine and add context to their actions and results. Generative AI (genAI) agents are ...

Promotional literature for computer-based language translation programs promises quick and comprehensible translations between English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Native and near native ...

A new Microsoft Research project has achieved a major milestone: Real-time machine translation of sign language using Kinect. Researchers in China created the prototype Kinect Sign Language Translator ...

In the sci-fi world crafted by Douglas Adams in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” you'd just slap a bright yellow Babel fish in your ear and simply be able to understand any mix of languages ...

Google Translate can come in handy when you're traveling or communicating with someone who speaks another language, and thanks to a new update, you can now connect with some 614 million more people.