A non-Japanese-speaking first-time visitor used Apple’s new in-ear translation feature to connect with locals at bars, sushi ...

Google is upgrading Translate with Gemini-powered context-aware translations, live speech translation through headphones, and ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Hear real-time translation in your headphones with Translate.The feature supports more than 70 languages.Android users can try it now, with iOS support coming next year. If you ...

Google is turning a long-promised sci‑fi idea into something you can actually use on the subway. Real-time speech translation is now streaming straight from your phone to your headphones, so you can ...

Expect "state-of-the-art translation quality", especially for idioms, local expressions, and slang. Today Google is finally revamping Google ...

On December 12, 2025, Google announced that it had rolled out a major upgrade to Google Translate, powered by its latest ...

Today’s language translation apps are like self-driving cars: incredibly useful, promising, nearing maturity, and almost entirely powered by machines. It's astonishing that the technology even exists.

In the sci-fi world crafted by Douglas Adams in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” you'd just slap a bright yellow Babel fish in your ear and simply be able to understand any mix of languages ...

When Google Translate was released, in 2006, I was an eighth grader stumbling through introductory Spanish, and my teacher had little reason to worry about her students using it to cheat. It’s almost ...

Emerge Media’s Translate.com, which launched about four years ago, has probably the best domain name you can have if you’re in the translation business. Until now, though, the service mostly offered a ...

In The Philosophy of Translation, Damion Searls investigates the essential differences—and similarities—between the task of the translator and of the writer. By just about any measure, Damion Searls, ...

Translators Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, and Arunava Sinha discuss how they broke into translating and how they approach their translation work forNational Translation Month. Some translators, such as ...