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Why do aliens in Star Trek all speak English? The answer is simple: They don’t, we just hear English because of an innocuous piece of sci-fi tech that pervades the entirety of Trek canon, the ...

Calling all Star Trek fans out there: The iPhone 3Gs has a universal translator — Jibbigo. Speak into your iPhone in any of the five supported languages, and the iPhone speaks the translation back.

Meta announced a new AI model for speech and text translations that seems to bring Star Trek's "universal translator" closer to reality. Readers of a certain age know that the Star Trek TV series in ...

The first iterations of something akin to the universal translators used on Star Trek may soon be arriving via your smartphone. A merger of two companies on Tuesday, Dial Directions in San Francisco ...

A technology straight out of science fiction is coming to your video calls, provided you're willing to pay for it. Michelle is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor, and has been reviewing games, laptops ...

OpenAI has starting to roll out advanced Voice Mode to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users. Advanced Voice Mode offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and ...

For decades, various sci-fi shows have used various translation "devices," which can automagically convert between the language of the speaker and the native language of the listener. From Star Trek's ...

War-zones such as Afghanistan never have enough interpreters, often forcing soldiers to rely on nonverbal communication that’s easily misunderstood. Three new devices solve that by automatically ...