In the 90s, the commercial was inescapable: Muzzy, the fuzzy, green, foreign language-teaching beast, speaks in French. The scene cuts to a girl watching the BBC video course. “Je suis la jeune fille, ...
Whether traveling internationally or interacting with locals who don’t share your native language, language barriers can make simple tasks like ordering food or introducing yourself feel impossible.
Language is an integral part of culture, intrinsically linked to one’s formative years, and often additional markers such as interpersonal relationships, views and beliefs. Given its ubiquitous uses, ...
Australian start-up, Lingmo International, has brought us one step closer to the science-fiction dream of a universal translator earpiece. The Translate One2One, powered by IBM Watson artificial ...
From Gene Roddenberry in Star Trek to Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, anyone who spends much time forecasting the future comes to realize that language has simply got to go. In ...
Frequent flyers will probably go for beam-me-down technology or that elusive flying car, but universal language translation would probably be pretty high up most people’s lists too. And unlike food ...
From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Babel fish to Star Trek's universal translator, science fiction has found ways to break down the intergalactic language barriers, but it's something those ...
The recent news of German start-up Bragi leaving the consumer hardware business -- which likely meant an end to its ambitious true wireless earbuds, the Dash -- was unfortunate. I admired the ...
From Gene Roddenberry in Star Trek to Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, anyone who spends much time forecasting the future comes to realize that language has simply got to go. In ...