Star Trek has its universal language translator and now researchers from Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) has developed a universal music translator. Much of it is based on Google’s ...

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 ...

Imagine being able to turn up in any city anywhere in the world and speak freely with the locals. It was fiction as Star Trek’s Universal Translator, in the hands of Lieutenant Uhura, chief ...

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 ...

Google Translate now supports real-time Gemini audio translation, bringing us one step closer to Star Trek's universal ...

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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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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The universaltranslator is a classic Star Trek plot device that makes encounters withalien ...

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 ...