Forgot your phrasebook at home? Don’t sweat it! Thanks to Google’s latest move, your earbuds just became your new best travel ...

Communicating between languages is an age-old challenge. Today computer programs can translate words instantly. But what about conversations? Intense ones? Maybe even the kind where life or death ...

With dozens of languages spoken in Los Angeles, police sometimes have trouble being understood. But a new hand-held device called the Phraselator has eased the communication gap. An officer merely ...

Near Iraq’s border with Kuwait, Sean P. Collins, a Special Forces team sergeant, met a group of children and asked them if they had seen the enemy. He spoke into a hand-held black box, called the ...

"In the current conflict (in Iraq), (American) military personnel will have to rely on human interpreters and weathered pocket dictionaries to communicate with refugees, wounded civilians, prisoners ...

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 ...

Over the years, we've seen a number of experimental "smart" gloves that convert their deaf wearer's hand gestures into text and/or audible speech. The aptly named Sign Language Translation Glove, ...

I was having lunch the other day with the publisher Christopher MacLehose, and we fell to talking about translation. This is not wholly unexpected: as well as having been (I discovered) PG Wodehouse's ...

What's better than a presentation to one audience? A presentation that can be given to any audience in any country, in any language, without laborious hand-translation. That's the promise of a new ...

Bridging communication gaps between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals is an important challenge in assistive ...