Increasing state and federal requirements for communicating with limited English speakers have challenged hospital administrators to find cost-effective solutions for this problem.??There are an estimated 47 million residents in the United States w…

Japan’s largest mobile carrier is about to launch the world’s first commercial service for language translation of conversations and signs between Japanese and other languages.Earlier this year in June we reported that NTT DOCOMO was conducting a tri…

Japan’s largest mobile carrier is about to launch the world’s first commercial service for language translation of conversations and signs between Japanese and other languages.Earlier this year in June we reported that NTT DOCOMO was conducting a tri…

A European team of researchers, including scientists from University of Manchester, has concluded that digital assistance for 21 of the 30 languages investigated is ‘non-existent’ or ‘weak’ at best.Last June we shared a story with you about Nicolas Ost…

Building a global audience on YouTube means that your videos must reach viewers around the world. Problem is that these viewers often speak languages other than English. 70 percent of an estimated 800 million monthly YouTube viewers live outside of 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…

Language translation barriers can prevent us from completely communicating with one another. But what if these barriers didn’t exist? What if they could be overcome completely within the next ten years?Jonathan Lichtman is a senior vice president at …

Language translation barriers can prevent us from communicating with one another. But what if these barriers didn’t exist? What if they could be overcome completely within the next ten years?Jonathan Lichtman is a senior vice president at Science App…

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 …

Latest Social Business Software Update Breaks through Language Barriers to Improve Collaboration Igloo Software, the leading provider of social business software in the cloud, today announced the next-generation version of their web-based collaboration…