Like Star Trek's universal translator, Pilot allows two or more people to speak to each other in completely different languages and still be understood. When someone wearing a Pilot talks to ...

Since Star Trek debuted in 1966 ... Enterprise is able to talk with every alien race they encounter: the "universal translator," a gadget that allows instant communication across language ...

From Star Trek's Universal Translator to the TARDIS translation matrix, it's a handy way to handwave the fact that TV casts can't be learning new languages every week. Even Star Trek Enterprise ...

It has long been used by James T Kirk to speak to aliens and blue women from space - but now Microsoft is on the brink of making a real, working Universal Translator. Frank Soong and Rick Rashid ...

Again, there are exceptions to the verbal, humanoid alien species in Star Trek, but not many. And even when Trek has encountered alien intelligences beyond the ability of the universal translator ...

The universaltranslator is a classic Star Trek plot device that makes encounters ... posits that all language has a universal structure. Regardless of whether thealiens communicate with sounds ...

Its name is Translatotron, and it may be key to achieving the seamless universal translation dream we see on Star Trek within our lifespan. The new tech skips the entire speech-to-text step of ...

Nonetheless, the impulse behind Google Translate—and the hokey Star Trek universal translator—is really quite sweet: people desperately want to understand one another. With inventions like ...

MICROSOFT has announced a new real-time Skype voice translation service it has compared to Star Trek’s ‘universal translator’. The tech giant demonstrated the new Skype Translator at the ...

Ever since the early days of Star Trek there has been a sci-dream of a Universal Translator that lets us all chat together, no matter our native tongue. That dream could become a reality with iOS ...