The mobile app will soon be able to automatically pick up on a number of popular spoken languages and convert the speech to text, says The New York Times. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

Many people have experienced awkward tongue moments at least once. Some were staring confused at a contract written in ...

Researchers at Microsoft have created software that can translate a user's voice into a foreign languages, a solution with the potential to revolutionize communications, MIT's Technology Review ...

Software that translates one human language into another. Live translate programs are invaluable when traveling in a foreign land. People just have to speak in their native language, and the software ...

Microsoft recently brought its Microsoft Translator that now has wider language support for all users worldwide. Over 100 languages and dialects are now accessible through the service. Currently, the ...

For some time now, speech-recognition programs have existed that attempt to reproduce the user's spoken words in another language. Such "speech-to-speech" apps, however, provide their translations ...

Researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your voice, and then use it to speak a language that you don’t. The system could be used to make language tutoring software more ...

One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest. I knew Frank spoke Danish well, because his mother was Danish, and he had lived in Denmark as a child. As ...

A SOFTWARE PACKAGE that translates Chinese to English and comprehends what it's translating has been developed by a graduate student in the UB Center for Cognitive Science. The Chinese-to-English ...