One of the most frequently-used phrases at (virtual) business conferences these days is “the future of work.” It’s increasingly clear that artificial intelligence and other new technologies will bring ...

In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the company had received from a fan in South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google founder, ran the message through an automatic ...

Developer Bertrand Quenin recently released an open-source project called "Interpreter" that aims to provide real-time translation for Japanese retro games. The tool can capture Japanese text ...

The Internet is an American invention, and though it has spread around the world, the bulk of the communication conducted through it is still in English. Even so, depending on what you're doing, you ...

When a doctor can't find an interpreter, many now reach for Google Translate. It seems like a practical fix to a pressing ...

Kurzweil shares his thoughts on the future of language technology. We live in a world where language technologies, still in their infancy, are powerful enough to turn your web browser into a text ...

As computer programmers develop new techniques for translating texts between languages with different alphabets, they are increasingly turning to a science that seems to have little in common with the ...

In a way, it's shocking that machine translation--the computer-aided translation of human languages--hasn't been perfected yet. Philosophers and mathematicians have been proposing its possibility ...

A simultaneous-translation computer that can be accessed via mobile phone to interpret business conversations between different languages has been nominated for a prestigious German technology prize.

I work at a large international organization translating speeches from French, Spanish, and Russian. When a rumor began spreading in my office that our jobs were to be “supplemented” by computer ...