Looking to create a system that quickly converts documents in foreign languages into English so that military personnel can react more rapidly to threats, DARPA today awarded BBN Technologies a $5.6 ...

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 ...

BBN Technologies this week got $13 million in additional funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for its system that quickly converts documents in foreign languages into ...

With the Nexus One, Google made voice commands an integral part of the phone’s user interface. In addition to voice searching — a feature on all Android phones — Nexus One users can also dictate ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Hear real-time translation in your headphones with Translate.The feature supports more than 70 languages.Android users can try it now, with iOS support coming next year. If you ...

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 ...

Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 was released last year in more than 60 countries and 16 different languages all on the same day. The software system for that massive translating effort came from Trados ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army offered contracts to five small businesses to develop artificial intelligence-powered, language-translation software capable of breaking down communication barriers between ...

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 ...

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 ...

The focus of the non-credit Certificate in Signed Language Translation (CSLT) is on translation between ASL and English and (other signed languages). Instruction will be provided by mostly Deaf ...