Though it still seems a bit like science fiction, we’ve reached the day where we can speak or type into our smartphones and have an artificial intelligence interpreter translate our speech or text ...

You don’t have to jet off to foreign climes to flex your language skills. According to the Census Bureau there are over 300 languages spoken in the US today. We could all use a little help when ...

With at least 6,000 different languages spoken around the globe, there's always a chance you'll meet people or travel to a destination who don't speak the same language as you. Sure, you can always ...

— -- Captain Kirk had the universal translator, Arthur Dent had the Babel fish — and the rest of us have smartphones. There's one major difference, though. Neither the universal translator nor ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. When you want to translate something, the ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s impressive language skills have been getting some well-deserved praise. The Facebook founder surprised a group of students in Beijing this week by answering all their questions in ...

If you travel a lot, you’ll know that one of the biggest challenges is communicating in countries that don’t natively speak your primary language. Many countries adopt English as their second language ...

THE LIST OF NOODLE dishes on the bilingual menu of Main Street Imperial Taiwanese Gourmet—a restaurant in Flushing, Queens—starts innocently enough. There’s a “Taiwanese Fried Noodle,” “Fried Rice ...

Dict.cc is a popular and powerful multilingual dictionary. It works with about a dozen languages and Russian is one of them. The app features a large database of words for all of its supported ...

The iPhone is a superb tool for when you’re travelling abroad. Not only is it small, lightweight and internet-connected; it has a camera, speaker and microphone, which suddenly opens up a whole range ...

Company adds new translation abilities, potentially prepares for new YouTube ads, extends credit to paying Google Apps customers, and more. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...