The mobile app will soon be able to automatically pick up on a number of popular spoken languages and convert the speech to text, says The New York Times. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

Software that translates one human language into another. Live translate programs are invaluable when traveling in a foreign land. People just have to speak in their native language, and the software ...

Microsoft recently brought its Microsoft Translator that now has wider language support for all users worldwide. Over 100 languages and dialects are now accessible through the service. Currently, the ...

For some time now, speech-recognition programs have existed that attempt to reproduce the user's spoken words in another language. Such "speech-to-speech" apps, however, provide their translations ...

Researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your voice, and then use it to speak a language that you don’t. The system could be used to make language tutoring software more ...

Translation software that develops an understanding of languages by scanning through thousands of previously translated documents has been released by US researchers. Most existing translation ...

One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest. I knew Frank spoke Danish well, because his mother was Danish, and he had lived in Denmark as a child. As ...