The language barrier may soon be breached if Microsoft Translator is as good as it purports to be. On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled plans to release a new mobile app before the end of 2016 that will ...

Microsoft hopes to release a mobile app by the end of year to translate multi-lingual conversations involving a group of speakers, all in real time. Microsoft's new speech-recognition record means ...

Science fiction has moved one step closer to science fact, with Microsoft's launch of a universal translator, an application that allows conversations between groups of people speaking different ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft's Translator service will soon support translating multi-lingual group conversations in ...

Before the end of 2014, Microsoft plans to release a beta Skype app that will enable real-time translation of people verbally speaking in different languages. “We felt speech translation was a very ...

Universal translators are a common trope in science fiction. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, they come in the form of the babelfish, a tiny crustacean you jam in your ear. In Farscape, they ...