While workers worldwide ponder how artificial intelligence might affect their livelihoods, there’s one sector where that question is no longer hypothetical. Machine translation has reduced the amount ...

Earlier this year, a drumbeat of news headlines played into public anxieties about the safety of human jobs when Duolingo, a language learning app, became a prominent example of a company cutting ...

Translators have always been among the professions most threatened by automation, but the last two years have been brutal.

Language translators and interpreters play a vital role in helping those who speak different languages connect. Although the two professions operate very similarly, they are not exactly the same. A ...

Sheryl Connolly was recently reminded of the invaluable service interpreters and translators provide to their communities. She was checking into the hospital for surgery last week, and even as a ...

Kim Wallmach has previously received funding from the National Research Foundation. The United Nations marks International Translation Day every year to honour the work of language professionals.

Dealing with issues involving your health, schooling or legal status are challenging enough for many people, but imagine if the paperwork you see or the person talking to you used an unfamiliar ...

More often than not, the efforts of interpreters and translators reduced the rate of injury and premature death. If there is anything to the hypothesis that these figures of the past played a major ...

Jinhyun Cho does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...