Language translation is a hot field for artificial intelligence in general. At CES 2026 last week, for instance, CNET's Macy Meyer tried out a phone -sized device and companion headphones that let her carry on a live conversation with a Polish speaker even though she doesn't speak Polish herself.

An interconnected world and globalisation has made people from diverse cultures and societies trade and socialize. You may be multilingual, but do you know that there are 122 major languages in India itself, with 22 of them being recognised by the ...

Vasco Electronics previewed its next-generation live voice translation device that is powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and can provide live translations of nearly 50 languages to your ear. The company, headquartered in Poland, previewed the device ...

In today's economy, businesses need to have a fast-paced, global reach in order to compete. Large corporations can afford to hire employees who speak a variety of languages and put them in strategic roles. They may even have a budget for translation services.

On Wednesday, Google unveiled Translatotron, an in-development speech-to-speech translation system. It’s not the first system to translate speech from one language to another, but Google designed Translatotron to do something other systems can’t ...

Microsoft has offered speech-to-speech translation capability as part of its Bing Translator app on Windows Phone for some time—and speaking to a phone makes sense. Hauling a laptop or a Surface tablet around to do the same, unfortunately, seems like ...

A new study finds that cascaded speech translation systems still deliver better results than speechLLMs, except in a narrow set of conditions.