Essentially, it looks as if the glasses will transcribe speech in real time and display them as subtitles.

In a city where diplomats and embassies abound, where interpreters can command six-figure salaries, where language proficiency is résumé rocket fuel, Vaughn Smith was a savant with a secret.

I have a friend who speaks only in trite, pithy statements — “What goes around comes around.” “You should really think outside the box.” “Maybe you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.” No? “Then it feels like a perfect storm.” God, they’re “such a cliché.”

Canines in the study could differentiate between Spanish, Hungarian and nonsense words

While imprisoned for being a “reactionary,” physicist and engineer Zhi Bingyi began devising a system to help computing machines read Chinese characters.

Geographically, Spain's Val d'Aran should be part of France, but it's neither French, Spanish nor Catalan in culture, history or even language.

Speaking "baby talk" to infants not only helps parents and caregivers connect with the young ones in their charge, but it may also help babies learn to make words, a study published Friday by the journal Speech, Language and Hearing found. Mimicking the sound of a smaller vocal tract clues babies into how words should sound coming out of their own mouths, the researchers said.

Bilingual people engage the same brain region that monolingual individuals use to put together words—even when combining different languages

Los Angeles’s renamed Crypto.com Arena is good news for cryptocurrency fanatics but strikes a blow against the word’s original meaning

Australian musk ducks can imitate sounds including human speech, with one bird recorded repeatedly saying “you bloody fool”, according to a new study. The recording of the talking duck appears to be the first comprehensively documented instance of the species being able to mimic sounds they hear, joining other birds including songbirds, parrots and hummingbirds.

Dozens of traditional cultures use a whistled form of their native language for long-distance communication. You could, too.

Jeff Dean's appearance at TED comes during a time when critics are calling for greater scrutiny over big tech's control over the world's AI systems.

In our daily lives, we spend a lot more time tapping at a screen and typing on a keyboard than writing with pencil and pen, so does handwriting tuition still offer anything useful? Absolutely, according to a new study.

The north-east Arnhem Land school ignored a government order to teach only in English for the first four hours of each day. Now, educators say the school's "both ways" approach using Indigenous language language and English in the classroom is yielding results.

With 300 decadent recipes, a relentless priest united regional dialects and preserved a common tongue.

One of the most common misconceptions about sign language is that it's the same wherever you go. That's simply not the case. With that in mind, let's take a look at 9 examples of sign languages from around the world.

How words are used change over time and insisting that their original meaning be adhered to is pretty silly.

Neuroscientists detect a distinct brain network that grows stronger with practice.

Is learning languages with Netflix possible? In this article we look at some of the ways to maximize your learning experience while watching Netflix.

In this article we will be taking a look at why Encore!!! is the best app to learn Italian, as well as discover the best way to learn Italian fast.