Translator

A new app will help you translate text messages that teenagers send to you.

The developers of the Word Lens real-time translation app have finally shown Android users some love with the app now available through Google play.

A team of students has created a portable sign-language translator.

New software developed by Microsoft is able to reproduce the user's speech in another language, using their own voice.

Scientists are working on an underwater device that could facilitate two-way human-dolphin communications.

The Quicktionary TS Premium is a handheld scanning and translation device that offers dingle word or full line translations in real-time on its LCD touchscreen display

Word Lens from Quest Visual is an augmented-reality translation app that uses your phone's camera to view printed words and translate them into another language in real time.

Converse is the name of a new app that will soon become available which is claimed to turn your iPhone into a double ended language translator – a multilingual, face-to-face instant messaging conversation.

Microsoft's annual TechFest is a chance for researchers to show their vision of what tech we'll be taking for granted in the future.

The Cry Translator is an iPhone application that translates a baby’s cries, categorizing them with one of five possible reasons: hungry, sleepy, annoyed, stressed or bored.

NEC’s prototype “Tele Scouter” device is a glasses type display that translates the foreign language being spoken by a partner and projects the translation onto a tiny retinal display.

This clever Blackberry app breaks down the language barrier on the fly - you speak in English, it translates and speaks your phrase in Arabic. It also works in reverse. Very nifty.