At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the ...

Last March, a computer built by a team of Google engineers beat one of the world's top players at the ancient game of Go. The match between AlphaGo and Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol was so exhilarating ...

Baidu has developed a new technique for smoother real-time machine translation. The challenge: Developing a simultaneous translation system has been a tough nut to crack because word order differs ...

The tech allowed Mr Rashid to present in Chinese, even though he does not speak the language Software that can translate spoken English into spoken Chinese almost instantly has been demonstrated by ...

Starting in September, a new minor at the University of Toronto Scarborough's Centre for French and Linguistics will teach students how to translate written English to Chinese. “The need for ...