Navigating subway diversions is hard enough, but poorly translated signs in Chinese neighborhoods make getting around even more difficult for non-English speakers, a new report says. The study, ...

Google Translate's instant camera feature will now make translating a foreign street sign as easy as aiming your phone -- even if your native language isn't English. The company today unveiled a set ...

Sign language is a language that uses the position and motion of the hands in place of sounds made by the vocal tract. If one could readily capture those hand positions and movements, one could ...

It is estimated that there exist some 7,100 different spoken languages in the world. 7,100 opportunities for language barriers, 7,100 opportunities for confusion. And this figure doesn’t even take ...