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 ...

In the last year I have been doing business in China, and as I prepared for my second trip over I decided that it was time to try out Franklin's TGA-490 12-Language Speaking Global Translator. Priced ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The biggest barrier between citizens of one nation to another isn't distance or a difference in culture: it's language. Sure, we can visit and ...

Contrary to what one might think, Google translate does not work by somehow parsing a text in the source language into its abstract meaning and then restituting that meaning in the target language.