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.

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 ...

AI and machine learning systems have become increasingly competent in recent years, capable of not just understanding the written word but writing it as well. But while these artificial intelligences ...

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 ...

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

In our rapidly advancing technological age, certain innovations don't just provide solutions—they reshape our understanding of the challenges themselves. One such realm that has witnessed ...

A team of computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University has won a $10.7 million grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to create an information retrieval and translation ...

A universal language translator has long been the stuff of science fiction — from Star Trek to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. So it might be surprising that technology imagined by authors ...

Noriyuki Matsuda's idea for a pocket-sized "magical device" that would provide instantaneous translation exceeded the capacity of technology available in 1989. But he continued to plan and work on ...