Your host in Osaka, Japan, slips on a pair of headphones and suddenly hears your words transformed into flawless Kansai ...

Earlier this year, a drumbeat of news headlines played into public anxieties about the safety of human jobs when Duolingo, a language learning app, became a prominent example of a company cutting ...

AI is also reshaping the business behind established language learning tools, sometimes controversially. Duolingo, one of the ...

When the protagonist in the British cult sci-fi novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" sticks a creature called a Babel fish in his ear, it translates all alien speech for him. Can artificial ...

Duolingo, the popular language learning app, has recently undergone a restructuring phase resulting in the layoff of 10 per cent of its contract translators. This strategic move, reported by media ...

Joshua Rapp Learn is an award-winning D.C.-based science journalist who frequently writes for Discover Magazine, covering topics about archaeology, wildlife, paleontology, space and other topics. View ...

Translating between human languages is something which artificial intelligence – specifically machine learning – has proven to be very competent at. So much so that the CEO of one of the world’s ...

One hesitation I hear time and time again when I talk to people about traveling is, “But I don’t speak the language.” To be sure, a language barrier can be a bit of a problem when traveling, and not ...

The intricacies of poetry can be quite remarkable. Carefully crafted form, wording, and symbolism alone are hard to capture ...