Microsoft’s language translation software brings us one step closer to the universal translator seen on Star Trek

Microsoft researchers demonstrate software that translates spoken English into spoken Chinese almost instantly, while preserving the unique cadence of the speaker’s voice.Back in March when I started writing this blog and in one of my first posts, I dr…

Google goes where no machine translation has gone before…

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…