A new study finds that cascaded speech translation systems still deliver better results than speechLLMs, except in a narrow ...

Montenegro's government has adopted a new stance on gambling in order to fast-track its accession to the European Union.

Bridging communication gaps between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals is an important challenge in assistive ...

Speculative decoding is a widely adopted technique for accelerating inference in large language models (LLMs), yet its application to vision-language models (VLMs) remains underexplored, with existing ...

Abstract: The paper presents an approach for machine translation of standardized medical terminology using a large pretrained language model. Manual translation of these terms currently requires a lot ...

Dec 16 2025 We released the preprint and Project Page for Sparse-LaViDa, an efficient optimization technique for training and sampling from unified multi-modal dLLMs based on LaViDa. Oct 2025: We ...

In Star Trek, it took until the year 2151 for a functional universal translator to come into existence, but Google is leveraging Gemini to accelerate that timeline. The company is offering real-time ...

TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

Google Gemini has launched real-time, continuous translation using your phone and a pair of connected earbuds, in what looks like a powerful transformative change to the way in which we interact with ...

Live speech translations were once only on the Pixel Buds. Live speech translations were once only on the Pixel Buds. It’s one of a few new features coming to Google Translate, along with improved ...

Google is rolling out new Gemini-assisted functionality to Search and its Translate app. It says its AI can now provide more natural and accurate text translations for phrases that have more "nuanced ...

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 find yourself in a ...