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 ...

This week, Google announced "Pixel Buds" — wireless headphones that can translate 40 languages on the fly. It's impressive, but most translators don't worry for their jobs any time soon. Others are ...

Speech-to-sign language translation software written by a team from Thailand won the main category of a Microsoft-sponsored software development contest for students, the Imagine Cup, on Thursday. The ...

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 ...

Imagine you're in a foreign country where you don't speak the language, and you need to decipher a confusing train schedule in a hurry. Wouldn't it be handy to be able to talk into a device, asking ...

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

Forget Rosetta Stone — researchers at Microsoft have developed a program that uses speech recognition software to translate what someone is saying into another language using a modified version of the ...

Not content with enabling free, cross-continental video conversations, Microsoft has now moved to break down language barriers and make conversing with our international friends even more convenient.

Lingoes looks for meanings and translations in all the popular dictionaries available online. By default, there is only one Basic English dictionary installed in the software, but as per your language ...

We need to write our business’s employee manual in Spanish. Is there a program to convert typing in English into Spanish? Translation software is readily available, including Universal Translator by ...