It converts common phrases in 20 different languages but is generally useless. Nov. 8, 2007 — -- When I first heard that Lingo's handheld talking translator would convert thousands of common ...

One hesitation I hear time and time again when I talk to people about traveling is, “But I don’t speak the language.” To be ...

This handy little device, about the size of a deck of cards, solves one of the two most vexing problems of a hopelessly monoglotic English-speaker trying to communicate in a foreign language: The ...

An occasional look at products the travel industry insists we need. Aimed at: World travelers who require the United Nations at their fingertips, and vacationers who failed foreign languages in high ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In science fiction, characters often turn to a portable universal translator to help bridge the linguistic divide, either among humans or with aliens. But the concept doesn't just ...