Whether traveling internationally or interacting with locals who don’t share your native language, language barriers can make simple tasks like ordering food or introducing yourself feel impossible.

It's a sci-fi trope: A universal translator that allows instantaneous communication between speakers of different languages. The TARDIS does it in Doctor Who, the babble fish serves that function in ...

With international travel to Las Vegas increasing — or for people planning to go abroad to a country with a language they don’t understand — a translating device could be an important investment to ...