Android/iOS: Word Lens, the app that can translate the words and language it sees in real time, is free to download today. Google has purchased Word Lens' parent company, Quest Visual, and their first ...

The Word Lens app hit the Apple App Store last week to a lot of hype. There's a justification for the hype: Word Lens uses character recognition to instantly translate text it sees. The words appear ...

If you’re traveling beyond the land of your mother tongue, it’s smart and safe (not to mention polite) to have a grasp of the basic building blocks of a foreign language -- the simple words and ...

Microsoft has updated its Translator app to allow for real-time two-way conversation in different languages. All you need is a smartwatch and smartphone. The technology is based on the same ...

Microsoft today launched its Bing Translator app for Windows (including Windows RT). We don’t usually write all that much about Windows apps, and translation apps aren’t exactly new, either, but it’s ...

Microsoft Translator's image translation is simple: point your phone's camera at a sign or menu in any of the 21 supported languages and the app translates it in real-time onscreen. The app's iOS ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Need to translate languages on the fly? One option is ...