Google adds automatic translation to Gmail
Google added automatic translation technology to Gmail on Tuesday, allowing users of its email service to translate messages in another language with a single mouse click.
View ArticleTwitter plans French, German, Italian and Spanish sites
Twitter, the fast-growing micro-blogging service, is seeking volunteer French, German, Italian, and Spanish translators to render its website into other languages.
View ArticleGoogle adds translation to main search engine
Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service.
View ArticleGoogle developing a translator for smartphones
(PhysOrg.com) -- Google is developing a translator for its Android smartphones that aims to almost instantly translate from one spoken language to another during phone calls.
View ArticleGoogle adds language translation to Android smartphones
Google on Thursday released free software that lets smartphones based on its Android operating systems be used as language translation tools.
View ArticleGoogle turns Android smartphones into interpreters
Google on Wednesday began turning Android-powered smartphones into interpreters with experimental software that lets the handsets translate conversations in real time.
View ArticleGoogle translation 'app' hits iPhone
Google software that turns iPhones into interpreters became available at Apple's online App Store on Tuesday.
View ArticleMicrosoft wins applause for tone-preserving translation (w/ Video)
(Phys.org)—Speech recognition in computers is an ongoing story with years of little progress in between. Even such programs as Siri have inspired derisive tales of how Siri renders flubs. Microsoft...
View ArticleFacebook to buy firm specializing in voice translation
Facebook has agreed to acquire Mobile Technologies, a firm specializing in voice translation software, the two companies said, without providing financial details of the transaction.
View ArticleJapan's gaming market is a world apart
The latest version of blockbuster videogame Grand Theft Auto may have stoked a worldwide buying frenzy, but the ultra-violent offering is likely to be a minnow in Japan's vast gaming market.
View ArticleGoogle to update translation app for phones
Quentin Hardy of The New York Times said it well: The tech industry is trying "to topple the Tower of Babel." He said that 80 to 90 percent of the web is in just 10 languages. Google, for one, has made...
View ArticleGoogle to add Maya, Nahuatl languages to search engine
Internet giant Google is adding two native Central American languages -- Maya and Nahuatl -- to its universal search service, a company official said Thursday.
View ArticleResearchers produce first Iraqi-to-English speech-to-speech translation app
Researchers at Jibbigo LLC and Carnegie Mellon University's International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT) have developed a new application for Apple's iPhone 3GS that performs...
View ArticleComputer automatically deciphers ancient language
In his 2002 book Lost Languages, Andrew Robinson, then the literary editor of the London Times' higher-education supplement, declared that "successful archaeological decipherment has turned out to...
View ArticleGoogle signs deal to translate European patents
(AP) -- Google announced an agreement Tuesday to use its technology to translate patents into 29 European languages, a deal officials hope will smooth the way toward a simplified European patent system...
View ArticleFirst translation of Small Number
(PhysOrg.com) -- Put together a Simon Fraser University mathematician who sees videos in numbers and an SFU Aboriginal researcher, fluent in a rarely spoken language, and voila! You have an animated...
View ArticleNew site to use crowd-sourcing as means to translate the internet
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you're Google and you're looking for the next crowd-sourcing piece to add to your already massive portfolio, it would seem Professor Luis von Ahn, of Carnegie Mellon, would be your...
View ArticleSmartphone foreign language apps speak to world
Smartphone applications have left many office tools and devices collecting dust. Add language translators to that growing list.
View ArticleDoCoMo demonstrates spoken language translator for smartphones
(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese cellular service company NTT DoCoMo, recently demonstrated a smartphone cloud based app that allows users speaking different languages to communicate with one another by...
View ArticleGoogle translates more India languages
Google on Tuesday expanded its free Internet translation service to include five languages spoken by more than a half million people in India and Bangladesh.
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