Language translators and interpreters play a vital role in helping those who speak different languages connect. Although the two professions operate very similarly, they are not exactly the same. A ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Reading a business proposal, legal contract, or technical manual can be difficult on a good day. Trying to decipher those documents in ...

Last year Coursera announced partnerships with international organizations to expand the number of its massive open online courses available in foreign languages. Now the for-profit MOOC provider is ...

Consider the following hypothetical scenario at your business: In anticipation of a new product launch, you have commissioned focus groups to test the market reaction to your product and messaging.

A universal language translator has long been the stuff of science fiction — from Star Trek to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. So it might be surprising that technology imagined by authors ...

Microsoft may finally deliver on an idea that has long been part of science fiction. On science fiction shows technology has eliminated the language barrier. Whether it's a Star Trek-style translator, ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The past few years have shown that U.S. government intelligence goes only so far. One of the biggest challenges is recognizing vital information in foreign languages — and acting ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Machine translation has come a long way since the heady, early days of the digital computer, when it seemed ...