Building a universal translator. Earlier this week, roughly 50,000 Skype users woke up to a new way of communicating over the Web-based phone- and video-calling platform, a feature that could’ve ...

Neural machine translation. Recently, language translation took an enormous leap forward with the emergence of a new machine translation technology called Neural Machine Translation (NMT). The ...

The big idea behind machine translation is the understanding that words are related to each other in similar ways, regardless of the language involved. So the process begins by mapping out these ...

Google Translate is getting a whole lot smarter, thanks to Google's implementation of machine learning, which is expanding to more languages. Skip to main content Menu ...

Facebook on Monday unveiled software based on machine learning which the company said was the first to be able to translate from any of 100 languages without relying on English.

First, Meta is developing No Language Left Behind, a translation system capable of learning "every language, even if there isn't a lot of text available to learn from," according to Zuckerberg.

In April, I blogged about Microsoft execs' latest favorite buzzword: Machine learning. This week, the Softies -- specifically, Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner -- mentioned machine learning again.