In a pinch, nothing beats Google Translate ... Unlike English, Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language, which means the meaning of words can change based on the speaker’s inflection.

Google will now begin to translate Chinese to English using a system called ... to English due in part to the different meanings a word could take when paired with certain characters.

A man uses a Google vocal translate app on his smartphone during a Google promotion event at the City of Fashion and Design (Cite de la mode et du design) in Paris on November 4, 2014. Credit ...

A team of Microsoft researchers announced on Wednesday they’ve created the first machine translation system that’s capable of translating news articles from Chinese to English with the same ...

While the tool has been used to successfully translate between English and Spanish, French, and Chinese in a research ... we would translate one word or a phrase in the source sentence at a ...

"The Chinese word long should be transliterated as 'loong ... so translators need to find ways to translate from one language to another without distorting the original meaning, Wang noted.