How to have a real-time video conference without speaking the same language. — -- Skype Translator has made a huge stride closer to its goal of allowing everyone in the world to be able to ...

The translation feature for the Internet-calling service now speaks the languages of Beijing and Rome. But the translator is still available only in preview mode. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Microsoft started accepting applications for a preview version of Skype Translator last November before going live a month later. Up to this point, the real-time translation feature only supported ...

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At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the ...

Phone users may soon be able to use WhatsApp to communicate with people who don’t speak their language. Here are the details.

Coding for Apple devices just got a little easier for thousands of developers in China, as a group of more than 100 programmers recently wrapped up an open source Mandarin Chinese translation of Apple ...

The very software that thrice defeated world grandmaster Lee Sedol for the ancient game of Go is now beginning to power Google Translate. Google will now begin to translate Chinese to English using a ...

A round of finishing touches was added to the Mandarin Chinese tranlstion last month, making it easier for 850 million native Mandarin speakers to build iOS apps. The project’s originator is Jie Liang ...

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