Not including your local language, how many languages can you speak? Maybe one, possibly two? The majority of us cannot speak any secondary languages, while others speak many languages. This variety ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Star Trek’s universal translator is here, about 200 years early. Say hello to our new ...

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One of the coolest things from Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy was the Babel fish. If you never read the books, it’s a little creature (well, a fish, but whatever) that slips inside your ear and ...

SpeechGear's Compadre suite of translation software brings us one step closer the sci-fi ideal of a universal translator. The full suite of five programs gives you the ability to instantly translate ...

Tucked away in the cavalcade of nonsense and borderline sexism that was the Galaxy S4 launch, Samsung announced a pretty cool feature in its latest flagship phone: built-in translation for nine ...

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