“We’re going to be able to communicate on a level we’ve never been able to communicate before,” says a Web expert of Google’s Conversation Mode.

It was fiction as Star Trek’s Universal Translator, in the hands of Lieutenant Uhura, chief communications officer on the USS Enterprise who kept Captain Kirk in touch with both Starfleet ...

Since Star Trek debuted in 1966, the many iterations of the franchise have leaned on a particularly useful piece of technology to explain how the crew of the Enterprise is able to talk with every ...

The Waverly Labs Pilot is as close as I’ve seen to the Universal Translator I was promised by Star Trek when I was a kid. Two Bluetooth earbuds, one in your ear, one in your other-language ...

The first iterations of something akin to the universal translators used on Star Trek may soon be arriving via your smartphone. A merger of two companies on Tuesday, Dial Directions in San ...

M icrosoft may have co-opted Star Trek a full century early by demonstrating an honest-to-goodness universal translator — one that not only renders what you’re saying into another language in ...

Skype Translator, Microsoft's Star Trek-style real-time speech translation tool, is being rolled out to the masses today as part of the Skype for Windows app.

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.

Microsoft Teams Wants to Make Star Trek’s Universal Translator Real. A technology straight out of science fiction is coming to your video calls, provided you're willing to pay for it.