If U.S. troops soon storm into Iraq, they'll be counting on computerized language translators to help with everything from interrogating prisoners to locating chemical weapons caches. Besides ...

Automatic translators have become powerful tools for communication across dozens of the world's major languages. But accessing one of the other 6,800 tongues spoken on Earth has continued to require ...

We all knew, or thought we knew, that computer translation—also known as machine translation, or MT—could never replace a human translator, with his vast cultural and linguistic experience ...

Translation software company DeepL has unveiled an autonomous AI agent designed to handle and automate various workflows that are currently carried out by humans in desktop jobs.The so-called DeepL ...

That is not to say professional translators do not use computer assisted translation (CAT) tools. More sophisticated applications can help them take the donkey work out of repetitive translations.

Watch the video below to see his short interview with Nataly Kelly on computer translation and the future of the language barrier. Kurzweil has predicted computer translators will be common by 2019, ...

That is not to say professional translators do not use computer assisted translation (CAT) tools. More sophisticated applications can help them take the donkey work out of repetitive translations.