The Tower of Babel translator is a prototype translation device that functions in a completely different fashion from existing translators. Rather than having users punch in words on a keypad and then ...

Why limit yourself to knowing only one language when you pretend to know many more? That’s what a bunch of U.S. scientists figured when they set about to create a “Tower Of Babel” translator. A series ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Aug. 30, 2023. Click here for that audio. On a balmy summer evening this August, fantasy fans are lined up outside the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Mass ...

When Skype announced its real-time translation program back in May, most of us seized on the sci-fi-ness off it all—Star Trek’s universal translator, Babel fish, etc. But the technology is very real, ...

AltaVista (now owned by Yahoo) has had the Babel Fish translation service since the late nineties. The service, which is powered by a French company called Systran, takes bits of text and translates ...