With natural language processing (NLP), computers can translate between languages, follow verbal commands, and quickly summarise vast amounts of text, sometimes in real-time.

However, AI translation, a blossoming subfield of natural language processing (NLP), claims to bridge language barriers and promote global communication.

Acer's AI TransBuds were announced at Computex and use machine learning to translate between 15 common languages in real time.

Chinese search giant Baidu has beaten Microsoft and Google in an ongoing natural language processing competition, thanks to the linguistic differences between Chinese and English. Baidu’s model ...