At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the ...

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Skype announced today today that it has added Italian and Mandarin to its short list of supported languages on its real-time Translator service for voice and video chat. The company launched a preview ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ditch your French and German textbooks and start learning Mandarin, David Cameron told the UK’s school pupils ...