Not so long ago, the idea of a universal language translation device making the jump from science fiction to reality seemed preposterous. Google Translate, however, is fast becoming that device. Its ...

In a way, it's shocking that machine translation--the computer-aided translation of human languages--hasn't been perfected yet. Philosophers and mathematicians have been proposing its possibility ...

Amazon (AMZN) wants to make Alexa, the popular voice-enabled assistant, a context-savvy, real-time universal language translator, Yahoo Finance has learned. According to several sources familiar with ...

Douglas Adams' Babel fish may not exist outside of the fictional universe, but Google is working on the next best thing: a real-time universal language translator. Michelle Starr is CNET's science ...

Amazon is planning to transform Alexa into a universal real-time language translator, according to sources with knowledge of the plans. Doing so would turn Alexa devices into multi-lingual assistants ...

Microsoft Research has shown off software that translates your spoken words into another language while preserving the accent, timbre, and intonation of your actual ...