Tuochao Chen, a University of Washington doctoral student, recently toured a museum in Mexico. Chen doesn't speak Spanish, so he ran a translation app on his phone and pointed the microphone at the ...

Scientists discover connection between left-handedness and neurological disorders. Study reveals lefties have 3.5 times ...

Commercial truck drivers for whom English is a second language are galvanizing. A petition opposing President Trump’s mandate all truckers speak ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

New research on the rhythmic drumming and complex calls of chimpanzees could point scientists to the origins of language.

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

Spatial Speech Translation addresses one of automatic translation’s biggest challenges: lots of people speaking at the same ...