Twitter translation center now open for six additional languages19 May 2012

Social media leader is now six steps closer to reaching every person on the planet.Back in March, we reported that Twitter had completed work to support right-to-left languages for the first time with the addition of Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. N...

Foreign language versions of New York State school exams riddled with errors in translation18 May 2012

Sloppy translations lead state officials to invalidate nearly 30 questions from English language arts and foreign-language versions of the state math exam.A series of nearly 30 errors have been found on the 2012 New York State English language arts (...

High-tech glove translates sign language into spoken letters18 May 2012

Cornell University engineering students devote their final project to the development of prototype glove Last March we reported on a breakthrough mobile software application that converts sign language into text, developed by researchers at Aberdeen ...

DARPA awards Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) program $7.1 million contract to SRI-led team17 May 2012

SRI International has been awarded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract under DARPA's BOLT program. BOLT is an international research initiative to develop breakthrough language technologi"Machine translation technology...

NTT Docomo to launch second trial of cloud-based translator mobile phone16 May 2012

Japanese mobile operator will expand trial to cover 10 languages and 10,000 users NTT Docomo will conduct a second trial of an experimental cloud-based service for real-time interpretation between Japanese and other languages via mobile devices. The ...

World Report: BGEA 'My Hope,' Greece, Christian Persecution, Romney - Christian Post14 May 2012

World Report: BGEA 'My Hope,' Greece, Christian Persecution, RomneyChristian PostAfter 34 years, a small band of translators have finally completed and delivered an Inuit-language bible . The 1.7 million dollar joint project of the Canadian Bible Society and the Anglican Church, is set to be launched on June 3 in a ceremony at the ...

NTT DoCoMo expands its instant translation trials to 10 languages and 10000 users - Engadget14 May 2012

NTT DoCoMo expands its instant translation trials to 10 languages and 10000 usersEngadgetDoCoMo has thrown in a few more details on how its real-time translator works. The feature is split into three steps: first, the carrier's servers recognize what you're saying, parses it into another language through its own cloud services and then ...and more »

Afghan immigrant, paralyzed while working as combat translator, reunited with ... - New York Daily News14 May 2012

New York Daily NewsAfghan immigrant, paralyzed while working as combat translator, reunited with ...New York Daily NewsPatkik's wife, Naseem, who had seen him only on Skype for the last two years, is overjoyed the clan is together again. The kids started school and are learning a new language. “I'm translating English for them,” said Patkik, smiling.

Why computers find it so hard to understand meaning - The Age13 May 2012

The AgeWhy computers find it so hard to understand meaningThe AgeIt set out to do something very hard: getting a computer to listen to a person speak in one language, translate that speech into another language, and pronounce it aloud. The dream of using computers to translate human language goes back to the very ...and more »

Love and Translation - Forward13 May 2012

ForwardLove and TranslationForwardWhy can't you just translate what I wrote?” I would say: “Because it's not English; you can't say that in English!” Or, “It's too sentimental, too much mush, too many adjectives.” She would say: “What a cold language English is!