Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. Imagine traveling to a foreign country where you don’t speak ...

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 ...

With at least 6,000 different languages spoken around the globe, there's always a chance you'll meet people or travel to a destination who don't speak the same language as you. Sure, you can always ...

Let's face it — one of the most awkward situations you can find yourself in is having a communication gap when you're in a foreign country. Gone are the days of hiring a translator or relying solely ...

Q:There is a commercial running on TV that has a young American man in Italy trying to communicate with an older Italian man. He speaks a sentence into his smart phone and it is translated back into ...

While the promise of seamless, human-like translation is not yet fully realised, rapid advances in AI are bringing it closer than ever.