Frequent flyers will probably go for beam-me-down technology or that elusive flying car, but universal language translation would probably be pretty high up most people’s lists too. And unlike food ...

From Gene Roddenberry in Star Trek to Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, anyone who spends much time forecasting the future comes to realize that language has simply got to go. In ...

In the 90s, the commercial was inescapable: Muzzy, the fuzzy, green, foreign language-teaching beast, speaks in French. The scene cuts to a girl watching the BBC video course. “Je suis la jeune fille, ...

Language is an integral part of culture, intrinsically linked to one’s formative years, and often additional markers such as interpersonal relationships, views and beliefs. Given its ubiquitous uses, ...

Australian start-up, Lingmo International, has brought us one step closer to the science-fiction dream of a universal translator earpiece. The Translate One2One, powered by IBM Watson artificial ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The biggest barrier between citizens of one nation to another isn't distance or a difference in culture: it's language. Sure, we can visit and ...

The first major upgrade being introduced by Timekettle is an automatic AI model picker called the SOTA (State of the Art) Translation Engine Selector. Timekettle’s systems are based on Large Language ...

Now that the internet has connected roughly 40 percent of the world’s population, one of the biggest barriers still standing in the way of international communication is language, but that could soon ...

People can save lives when they speak the same language. Technology has advanced such that we can instantaneously communicate with people in the farthest reaches of the world without breaking a sweat.

From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Babel fish to Star Trek's universal translator, science fiction has found ways to break down the intergalactic language barriers, but it's something those ...