Technology

Translation Technology Replicates Your Voice

by Richard Brooks September 30, 2011 Technology

Microsoft has been experimenting with some very interesting translation technology. For example, the company’s chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, recently appeared on a computer screen in Beijing, speaking perfectly fluent Mandarin. Nothing unusual about that, except for the fact that the real Craig Mundie doesn’t speak Mandarin at all. Instead, Microsoft has created [...]

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Facebook Translates Comments

by Richard Kazandjian September 14, 2011 Machine Translation

Facebook already connects hundreds of millions of users around the globe, and the site itself has been translated into more than 70 different languages. Now, it looks like the popular website may take its efforts to break down language barriers between users to another level by offering automatic translations for comments. At the moment, the [...]

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iPhone App Helps Troops

by Richard Kazandjian August 11, 2011 Learning Languages

When it comes to Afghanistan, winning the all-important “battle of hearts of minds” has proven to be quite difficult…especially when soldiers don’t speak the language. Now, a new, free iPhone app is available to help soldiers learn Dari, one of the local languages. The app, TripLingoDari, was recently profiled on CNN.com. Dari, the Afghan dialect [...]

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Games Computers Play

by Tanguy July 19, 2011 games

Can we really teach computers to understand language, like a human can, or are they more like parrots, able to memorize certain words and phrases without actually grasping the meaning? A new paper presented by MIT researcher Regina Barzilay and her graduate students indicates that computers will one day have the capability to truly understand [...]

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Keyboard in Maori Language

by Tanguy July 15, 2011 Languages

Maori is the original language of New Zealand, and one of the country’s three official languages. However, despite its official status and efforts at reviving it that date back to the 1980′s, the number of fluent speakers is estimated to be between 10,000 (Maori Language Commission, cited in Wikipedia) and 60,000 (Ethnologue). Approximately 100,000 people [...]

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Twitter is Changing Language

by Tanguy June 17, 2011 Case Studies

One of the most intimidating parts of learning to use Twitter is the lingo. Confronted by words like “retweet,” “hashtag” and the “Twittersphere,” new users often find themselves wondering: “What language are these people speaking?” English, as it turns out – Twitter is just changing the way we speak it, adding new vocabulary words and [...]

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Google +1 on K International’s blog

by Richard Brooks June 7, 2011 K International

We have added the google +1 to the top right hand corner of all pages on our blog. So if you like an article click on the button to vote for it. It helps us by appearing higher in the rankings and helps you to share great content with your friends and family. The video [...]

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Google Docs Fails Translation Test

by Richard Brooks May 30, 2011 Technology

Google has long touted its machine translation services as a boon to businesses, but how well do they measure up? To find out, PCWorld writer Tom Bradley recently put the translation feature in Google Docs to the test, translating content to and from English and other languages.

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New Glove Translates Sign Language Into Text

by Caroline Mikolajczyk April 8, 2011 Technology

Japanese researchers at Osaka and Shinshu Universities have been working together to develop a gadget that automatically translates finger spelling into text.

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