Translation

Samsung is taking another step towards breaking down the language barrier. Expected early next year, the Galaxy S24 smartphone range will feature a real-time translation tool based on artificial intelligence, AI Live Translate Call. Conversing with a Chinese colleague, a Saudi customer or a Brazilian prospect, each in their own language...

After the announcement of Samsung's Galaxy Fold 3 and Flip 3 and Apple's latest flagship, the iPhone 13 Pro, not to mention Xiaomi's 11T Pro, Google is also taking advantage of the autumn to unveil its new premium smartphone, the Pixel 6 Pro, as part of its new Pixel 6 range. The anticipation was so...

Zoomtopia, the annual conference organised by Zoom, was held on 13 and 14 September. It was an opportunity for the remote communications specialist to take stock of the past few months, which have obviously been marked by intense activity linked to containment measures around the world. "Over the last decade,...

From one edition to the next, this is undoubtedly one of the great showcases of the VivaTech trade fair, this flurry of futuristic inventions heralding the imminent arrival of flying taxis in the skies over major cities, as well as autonomous cars and soon even... houses in the clouds. Start-up Hover City, for example, has invented 'mobile' real estate. And all at the whim of...

For a while, the results of machine translation tools were often laughable. For anyone who has turned their back on them for a number of years, it's time to give them another try and revise their judgement. Today's solutions rival professional translations. At the turn of the millennium,...

Skype Translator is a handy feature. Since 2015, it has been used to automatically translate conversations in the popular video conferencing application in near real time. To achieve this feat, publisher Microsoft is relying on artificial intelligence, but not only that. According to the American website Motherboard, which broke the story last year on...

Can you already put a figure on the Covid-19 effect, in terms of use of Workplace by Facebook? Julien Lesaicherre - We don't have any figures for the Covid-19 effect, but what is clear is that we are receiving a lot of requests from customers, and that our teams are working 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. With the...

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Machine translation is clearly high on the list of airline flight plans for 2020. A few days after the deployment of the Pocketalk tool to All Nippon Airways' teams, and while British Airways is preparing to launch its Bill robot, also equipped with a translation system, American Airlines is working on a...

Since 18 December, a new tool has been in operation at Osaka International Airport. This "Pocketalk", designed by Sourcenext, is a real-time automatic translation system for All Nippon Airways teams. 200 devices of this type will soon be deployed in around fifty Japanese airports, with a view to simplifying...

A new feature of the Google Assistant, unveiled at CES, could soon make life easier for business travellers, particularly when staying in hotels. Interpreter mode, currently being rolled out on Google Home devices and Smart Displays, will enable them to converse with concierges or receptionists...

Available since 20 March, the DeepL Pro version, which is subject to a charge, could be of interest to those involved in international mobility. As well as providing additional options to the basic translation, it also includes an API, or "application programming interface". This will enable software or application developers to incorporate the translator into their own services....

A new competitor to AirPods has arrived on the market. Google has launched its own wireless headphones. Called Pixel Buds, this new device joins the growing range of connected objects from the search engine. To use them, travellers simply need to press down on one of the earpieces and make a request of some kind....

Well known to business travellers for the quality of its services, Linguee is entering a new era. On 29 August, its creators announced the launch of a new automatic translation tool: DeepL Translator. An ambitious launch, if the press release is anything to go by, referring to "a service of unrivalled quality", "a real breakthrough in the field of...

With its websites - Babelfish, Linguee and Reverso among the best known, as well as Google Translate and Bing Translator - and its mobile applications galore, machine translation is now almost a technological standard. But at the end of the day, users are only interested in one question: can they trust these solutions completely? From...

At a time when videoconferencing is becoming an increasingly credible and functional alternative to certain business trips, a new service could well reinforce this use of new technologies. TYWI-Live professional software now offers instant translation of video conferences in no fewer than 78 languages. Launched at the end of October by...

The TextGrabber + Translator tool launched by ABBYY for iPhone now lets you use your smartphone as an OCR - a character recognition tool - after simply taking a photo of the document you want. The publisher has added a practical extra: instant translation, based on Google Translate. The other new feature offered by ABBYY is the ability to manage...