Baidu Inc.’s advances in artificial intelligence often go unheralded next to the likes of Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. But the company is actually one of the leaders in the field, having developed ...

Simultaneous interpreters are in great demand in Shanghai. For the upcoming 2010 World Expo, multilinguists are training hard and cashing in on the city's need for talent. Of course, not everyone has ...

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Baidu Inc. today announced the availability in beta test of a new “speech-to-speech simultaneous translation service” designed to facilitate communication at business events. The Chinese technology ...

Baidu, operator of China’s largest search engine and a national champion in artificial intelligence, has thrown down the gauntlet to Google with the upcoming debut of its first simultaneous ...

Google isn't the only big game in town when it comes to real-time translations. Chinese search giant Baidu has developed its own system, STACL (Simultaneous Translation with Anticipation and ...

When the protagonist in the British cult sci-fi novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" sticks a creature called a Babel fish in his ear, it translates all alien speech for him. Can artificial ...

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If you've been watching or listening to the uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen, you've likely heard an Arabic interpreter. They're everywhere. And they can have different takes on the same ...