Many of us have wanderlust, but traveling to a foreign country can be quite scary. The biggest barrier to travel is unfamiliarity with the local language. Luckily, you don’t need to spend months ...

While China's inbound and outbound travel continued to boom this summer with the holiday rush approaching, sales of translator machines have soared, the Global Times has learned. There has been an ...

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Works globally and features a capable offline mode. Very pocketable and intuitive to use. Plenty of languages covered, at least when online. Camera and screen resolution are insufficient for ...

Faced with daunting translation problems in war and disaster zones around the world, the U.S. military is refining a handheld voice-translation device that will soon be used by police and ...

Whoever ends up becoming the 7 billionth person born on Earth may want to learn a second or third language to be able to thrive in a world connected by fast air travel and even faster Internet ...

A staff member at the Summer Palace tests the AI-supported handheld translator. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] At the Summer Palace, a renowned historical tourism spot in Beijing, a staff ...

When Google Translate was released, in 2006, I was an eighth grader stumbling through introductory Spanish, and my teacher had little reason to worry about her students using it to cheat. It’s almost ...

Re “I, Translator,” by David Bellos (Op-Ed, March 21): I, too, am a translator and a teacher of translation technology, and I have no quarrel with Mr. Bellos’s arguments regarding the impediments to ...

An effective tool for live translating that doesn’t need a phone or any other accessories. Simple and easy to use, lightweight and reliable, the only major downside of this elegant solution is the ...