Google-inspired smart glasses translate foreign languages in real-time

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. …

Raytheon BBN Technologies awarded $5.9 million in DoD funding to develop a foreign-document translation system

New technology to produce real-time English transcripts of foreign-language handwritten notes and printed documentsLast May we reported that SRI International had been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) $7.1 million contract un…

Microsoft wraps up 2012 World Partner Conference: Announces availability of new language translating software

Microsoft Translator Hub is a comprehensive software solution for custom translation quality and it’s now ready for commercial use.Microsoft announced the commercial availability of its new language translation software at this year’s Worldwide…

Innovative high-tech gloves translates sign language into complete spoken words

Prize-winning device may eventually have the potential to help hundreds of millions of hearing-impaired people around the world.Last May we reported on three Cornell University engineering students who had developed a high-tech glove that translated ha…

30 different languages now supported by Twitter

If you speak either Catalan or Ukrainian, you’ll be glad to know that Twitter has added both to its list of available languages, bringing the total number of supported languages to 30.Back in March, we reported that Twitter had completed work to supp…

Language translation devices to be used by Mississippi police for the first time

Using portable language translation machines, police in Jackson, Mississippi have taken steps to improve communications and public relations with non-English-speaking city residents.At the end of June the Jackson Police Department (JPD) announced it wo…

Universal language translation app ready for the Summer Olympic Games

Millions of tourists from all over the world will converge in London for the 2012 Olympics next month, making the city the perfect location to test a new iPhone speech translation app.Back in March we posted s story about a new language translation iPh…

Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT)

BOLT is an international research initiative to develop breakthrough language translation technologies. Expanded global access to diverse means of communication results in more information being produced in more languages more quickly than ever before….

Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT)

BOLT is an international research initiative to develop breakthrough language translation technologies. Expanded global access to diverse means of communication results in more information being produced in more languages more quickly than ever before….

Top 10 myths about language translation debunked Part 3

Language translation is a growing and essential necessity in the both the public and the private sector, in the world of business as well as for those involved in non-profit work.Here’s our final installment of this three-part post — the ten mos…