Translation services from Google, Bing and others mean it's now very easy to translate plain text, and there are a host of apps and browser extensions available to simplify the process further.

At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the ...

Baidu has developed a new technique for smoother real-time machine translation. The challenge: Developing a simultaneous translation system has been a tough nut to crack because word order differs ...

For Senior Editors Bonnie Cha and Kent German, Future Apps’ new language program for the iPhone and iPod Touch may be just the thing to get them around Barcelona next week as they attend the GSMA ...

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