On this International Translation Day, the topic is trust—and it is trust that is on the line. Can we trust machines with our ...

In the sci-fi world crafted by Douglas Adams in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” you'd just slap a bright yellow Babel fish in your ear and simply be able to understand any mix of languages ...

AI and machine learning systems have become increasingly competent in recent years, capable of not just understanding the written word but writing it as well. But while these artificial intelligences ...

I work at a large international organization translating speeches from French, Spanish, and Russian. When a rumor began spreading in my office that our jobs were to be “supplemented” by computer ...

The focus of the non-credit Certificate in Signed Language Translation (CSLT) is on translation between ASL and English and (other signed languages). Instruction will be provided by mostly Deaf ...

Earlier this year, a drumbeat of news headlines played into public anxieties about the safety of human jobs when Duolingo, a language learning app, became a prominent example of a company cutting ...

A unique project has been launched in Estonia to create the first Estonian sign language translation robot. The solution ...

Over the past several decades, researchers have regularly developed devices meant to translate American Sign Language (ASL) to English, with the hopes of easing communication between people who are ...