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 ...

Microsoft has today posted a video, and complementary explanation of language translation that goes far past what we thought was currently possible. In the video, the speaker explains and demonstrates ...

The translation feature for the Internet-calling service now speaks the languages of Beijing and Rome. But the translator is still available only in preview mode. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Geoffrey Morrison is a travel writer and digital nomad. The ili is a hand-held translator. I’ve written about it before, but the ...

Microsoft started accepting applications for a preview version of Skype Translator last November before going live a month later. Up to this point, the real-time translation feature only supported ...

You don't speak Mandarin and you lose your wallet and your way in Shanghai. Pantomime and Pictionary isn't getting you anywhere. So, what do you do? IBM says it can rescue you. Last year, the tech ...