OpenAI has officially launched ChatGPT Translate, a dedicated translation feature that positions itself alongside tools like ...

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, ...

Get the whole page in your native language with a single button. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you stumble across a webpage or a link in a different language, you can instantly translate the ...

Jon Fosse’s “Septology,” the seven-novel sequence about art and God that helped win its author last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, stars two men and a dog. The men are both painters, and, ...

In the sci-fi world crafted by Douglas Adams in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” you'd just slap a bright yellow Babel fish in your ear and simply be able to understand any mix of languages ...

Contrary to what one might think, Google translate does not work by somehow parsing a text in the source language into its abstract meaning and then restituting that meaning in the target language.