A professor has made the world's first automatic translation service for college lectures that can translate live talks instantly. That solution for overcoming language barriers could open up ...

Understanding lectures can be a challenge for foreign students, since they may not be fluent in the language used in the classroom. But Alex Waibel, a computer-science professor at Karlsruhe Institute ...

With most things it’s really the small things that count. With Google Docs it’s just one small thing after another. The most recent is the announcement this week that Google Docs users will be able to ...

The birth of the internet changed human communication beyond recognition. In the mid-90s, a person with a connection in San Francisco could talk in real-time with an internet user in Tokyo: something ...

The aim of their collaboration is to achieve machine-based translation between the languages of the European Union so that comprehensible texts are achieved for as many language combinations as ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Windows announced Bing Translator for Windows today. It’s a touch-enabled ...

We’ve all been there – you’re trying to get around somewhere where you don’t speak the language, so you gesture wildly whilst trying to think back to your GCSEs. So it’s a bit of a relief to know that ...

Twitter has well over 300 million users around the world, and they don’t all speak the same language. Soon you may not even notice as the micro-blogging platform is experimenting with automatically ...

International connectivity can turn the electronic global village into the city of Babel. To ease the frustration, CompuServe has recently introduced a service that translates digital text ...

Foreign students using the simultaneous translation system can follow German lectures more easily. The same service could soon expand to more languages. A professor has made the world's first ...