Not including your local language, how many languages can you speak? Maybe one, possibly two? The majority of us cannot speak any secondary languages, while others speak many languages. This variety ...

During an Inside the Lab: Building for the metaverse with AI livestream event on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't just expound on his company's unblinking vision for the future, dubbed the ...

Meta has taken another step towards creating a universal language translator. The company has open-sourced an AI model that translates over 200 languages — many of which aren’t supported by existing ...

When you think of tools infused with artificial intelligence (AI) these days, it’s natural for ChatGPT and Bing Chat to spring to mind. But Facebook owner Meta wants to change that with SeamlessM4T, ...

As the pandemic at long last winds down, international travel is picking up, with millions looking to make up for lost time. As travelers explore foreign lands, tools like Google’s Neural Machine ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

On Tuesday, Meta announced SeamlessM4T, a multimodal AI model for speech and text translations. As a neural network that can process both text and audio, it can perform text-to-speech, speech-to-text, ...

Amazon (AMZN) wants to make Alexa, the popular voice-enabled assistant, a context-savvy, real-time universal language translator, Yahoo Finance has learned. According to several sources familiar with ...

One of the coolest things from Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy was the Babel fish. If you never read the books, it’s a little creature (well, a fish, but whatever) that slips inside your ear and ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Meta, the owner of ...