When you want to translate something, the easiest option is often a free translation service like Google Translate. But you should avoid pasting sensitive information into free translation services, ...

Microsoft has offered speech-to-speech translation capability as part of its Bing Translator app on Windows Phone for some time—and speaking to a phone makes sense. Hauling a laptop or a Surface ...

Traveling often means you get to explore different cultures and different foods. But besides the new cultural and gastronomic experiences, you're also introduced to different languages. That's why ...

While you might not want to walk down the street pointing your laptop’s webcam at unfamiliar street signs, Microsoft has made the option available to travelers voyaging in distant lands. Microsoft ...

Today’s language translation apps are like self-driving cars: incredibly useful, promising, nearing maturity, and almost entirely powered by machines. It's astonishing that the technology even exists.

The smorgasbord of announcements at CES 2022 is dominated by flashy hardware in diverse forms and cool software for the days to come. But there are a few reveals sprinkled in between the mad rush that ...

AirPods can now connect you to talk to people who speak other languages. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac I put AirPods’ new Live Translation feature to the test and came away impressed with the ...

Q:There is a commercial running on TV that has a young American man in Italy trying to communicate with an older Italian man. He speaks a sentence into his smart phone and it is translated back into ...