Tag archive: translation

Dolphins have long been considered by scientists to be the most intelligent animals on the planet (aside from humans, of course). But soon, with the help of newly developed underwater translation software, our two species may actually be able to talk to each other. Armed with a waterproof computer, divers may soon be able to decipher the chirps of dolphins, then create and project an appropriate response, all in real time, reports New… Read More

Opera 10.5 may challenge Google Chrome’s claim to perkiest Windows browser out there, but the latest version of Chrome includes a clever new feature yet unmatched in the browser wars: automatic site translation, plus beefed up privacy controls. Much like the “translate this page” feature Google already offers when foreign-language pages show up in search results, Chrome will now automatically detect which language a page is in and offer to… Read More

Remember the original Babel Fish in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Drop one in your ear and you can instantly understand any language you hear? Or the translator microbes in Farscape that “colonized the base of the brain” and let diverse species more-or-less understand each other's speech? Or Star Trek's universal translator? Mostly these were fantastical inventions to save writers (and actors) (and audiences!)… Read More

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. has announced that it has successfully developed Yakushite.Net, a Web-based machine translation environment that enables increased translation precision by letting users register their own dictionary data. This Internet machine-translation portal site is available to the general public for use free of charge, starting today. In order to offer a highly precise Web-based machine translation system, it is vital… Read More