The following is an extract from Guy Harrison’s upcoming book AI, Blockchain and Quantum Computing due in October/November 2024. In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, various alien races ...

Matthew Zucca, a tech enthusiast and former consultant from Canada, joined Android Police in 2023. Leveraging his technical knowledge and previous consulting experience, Matthew got his first two ...

Calling all Star Trek fans out there: The iPhone 3Gs has a universal translator — Jibbigo. Speak into your iPhone in any of the five supported languages, and the iPhone speaks the translation back.

— -- Captain Kirk had the universal translator, Arthur Dent had the Babel fish — and the rest of us have smartphones. There's one major difference, though. Neither the universal translator nor ...

In 2023, AI researchers at Meta interviewed 34 native Spanish and Mandarin speakers who lived in the US but didn’t speak English. The goal was to find out what people who constantly rely on ...

In a nutshell: Meta is introducing another AI model for researchers and companies interested in language translation and related applications. The company, formerly known as Facebook, has developed ...

A universal translator akin to the Babel Fish from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” might soon be possible. It’s all thanks to Meta Platforms Inc.’s Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research ...

Microsoft Research has shown off software that translates your spoken words into another language while preserving the accent, timbre, and intonation of your actual ...