Now when you enter a word or phrase into Google’s translation service you’ll be presented with an option to save that word or phrase into a personalized phrasebook for later reference.The new Phrasebook feature allows you to easily create a personalize…

Man accused of collecting money for Kurdish terrorist group breaks down after being confronted with text message that turned out to be harmless.Copenhagen police have admitted to wrongly confronting a Kurdish man accused of financing terrorism with a t…

A national audit finds that 182 magistrate trials have collapsed due to lack of language interpreters. Meanwhile the court’s reliance on Google Translate is ‘putting the public safety at risk.’A ‘catastrophic’ shortage of language interpreters in the U…

The introduction of the three new features to Google Translate should help users distinguish among different possible translations of a given word.In September we reported that Google had added Lao as its 65th language to its Translate service. Now the…

Google has just announced it has added Lao as its 65th language to the Google Translate service. But the new language (currently in alpha) is not yet offered in Google Chrome’s translation feature.Six years ago Google first announced their approach t…

Google has introduced the ability to translate pictures of words using optical character recognition (OCR) in its updated Google Translate Android app.Back in April we brought you a story about Word Lens, an innovative mobile tool by Quest Visual that …

Google’s Project Glass inspires the invention of innovative spectacles that can translate foreign languages as they’re spoken. The quest for reliable, real-time language translation without the need for a human interpreter isn’t exactly new. …

The technology giant is rolling out a new feature to all Gmail users over the next days that will make email communication with those who speak a different language much easier. Using the new feature, when a Gmail user receives an email in a foreign la…

Google has announced that its popular language translator service Google Translate now boasts 200 million monthly users, many of whom are accessing it outside the U.S. and via mobile devices.Six years ago Google first announced their approach to statis…

Consecutive interpretation by Chrome browser and on your smart phone…Although it’s not quite what you might find aboard the Starship Enterprise, Google has made another step forward in the development of machine translation. An innovative featu…