On Wednesday, Google unveiled Translatotron, an in-development speech-to-speech translation system. It’s not the first system to translate speech from one language to another, but Google designed ...

Microsoft’s powerful new Skype Translator could revolutionize the way people across countries and continents interact—if it really works, that is. Starting this week, Skype users will help answer that ...

Siavash Ardalan, who translated the speech live for BBC Persian TV, tells PEOPLE he feels "very strongly" that a translator ...

A new study finds that cascaded speech translation systems still deliver better results than speechLLMs, except in a narrow ...

Hospital workers often have their hands full with tasks such as patient care, plus they also often have to communicate with patients who speak other languages. With this in mind, Fujitsu Laboratories ...

Speaking another language may be getting easier. Google is showing off Translatotron, a first-of-its-kind translation model that can directly convert speech from one language into another while ...

Google's real-time translator looks ahead and anticipates what is being said, explains Niklas Blum, Director Product Management.

I’ve demonstrated the Windows Phone’s predictive, heuristic text entry and voice recognition prowess to nearly everyone who’s ever pulled up a barstool next to me, yet they still bang away at their ...

Speech recognition, executed without mistakes, is the Holy Grail of translation. If we could talk into our smartphones and have vocalized a flawless translation into any language of our choosing, be ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

When the protagonist in the British cult sci-fi novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" sticks a creature called a Babel fish in his ear, it translates all alien speech for him. Can artificial ...