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 ...

In the sci-fi world crafted by Douglas Adams in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” you'd just slap a bright yellow Babel fish in your ear and simply be able to understand any mix of languages ...

Researchers report a new machine translation system that outputs subtitles in multiple languages for archived university lectures. As countries like China and Japan expand their international student ...

When you need to translate one language to another, either just to communicate or because you're trying to read something, you have tons of options—they're just not all that great at capturing what ...

Translating text into other languages used to be a difficult task. Now there are a variety of apps, websites, tools, and devices that can get the job done. Google alone has two apps that can translate ...

The AI can translate speech into another language to make it a translator, synthesize the voice in the new language by understanding it, which is speech recognition, and translate it back. Programs ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Google Translate’s new transcription feature, first demoed back in January, is ...