Let's face it — one of the most awkward situations you can find yourself in is having a communication gap when you're in a foreign country. Gone are the days of hiring a translator or relying solely ...

Microsoft today launched its Bing Translator app for Windows (including Windows RT). We don’t usually write all that much about Windows apps, and translation apps aren’t exactly new, either, but it’s ...

And spoken language is more varied than written text. There are accents and dialects, meaningful hesitations that can’t be ...

A group speaking nine different languages can hold a conversation together -- with help from a Microsoft app on their phones. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Effective communication between people from all parts of the globe is possible thanks to translation. The world is slowly but surely becoming globalized, so the need for translation keeps on ...