Translation

Changing the rules of the game again: Gemini and Google Translate join forces

Google’s new Gemini-powered tech enables real-time conversation translation directly in headphones, preserving tone and emphasis. Now rolling out to iPhone after launching on Android.

Google (illustration).
WhatsApp

WhatsApp will translate messages for you inside the chat

Jewish Serbian writer David Albahari.

Life and legacy of Jewish-Serbian author David Albahari - opinion

 Gdfin CEO Eyal Regev: "when I came up with a completely crazy idea of entering the world of drone deliveries, they listened."

Head in the clouds: Gadfin is changing the game


Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Halevi Epstein's transliteration troubles

The value of this seminal collection of hassidic teachings is unaffected by how we choose to pronounce the title of the work.

 Title page from the 1859 edition of 'Maor Vashamesh.'

Jewish activists work as translators to fight ‘language violence’

The translators at Respond Crisis Translation work with asylum seekers stranded along the US border, providing translation and interpreting services.

A migrant from Guatemala talk to a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent at the Paso del Norte international border bridge to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, U.S., in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 26, 2021.

New website translates Bible, religious texts into Spanish

Most Spanish-language versions of the Bible are based on Christian translations, and the text is heavily influenced by their theology.

Rabbi Shmuel Kornblit (front row, far left) with Jewish studies teachers from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay at Herzog College.

Israeli novel becomes first to be translated into Arabic in Morocco

"As a Moroccan Jew, I have come to realize a dream: that my works are read in my hometown is a source of great personal pride" • "there is yearning for the old times when Jews and Moslems coexisted"

The novel “A Girl in a Blue Shirt," written by Prof. Gabriel Bensimhon

Send friends 5,000-year-old emojis with new Google AI hieroglyphic app

Users can play with hieroglyphics, practice identifying and drawing them and even send their very own message in ancient Egyptian to friends.

A wall of a chamber of the tomb of Mehu is seen after it was opened for the public at Saqqara area near Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, in Giza, Egypt September 8, 2018

Language services in Israel

The language service industry is one of the world’s fastest growing industries.

The cover of Guy Lenman and Nimrod Frydman’s award-winning comic book, ‘Piece of Mind’

The Ibn Tibbon family: Masters of Hebrew translation

Judah ibn Tibbon and his son, Samuel, made translation a key factor in promoting great philosophical works to readers in Hebrew.

‘IN THE mid-12th century, Judah moved from Granada in Muslim Spain and settled in Lunel in Provence.’

Yiddish translation of 'Harry Potter' sells out in only 48 hours

Such success of a Yiddish publication is unprecedented, as few if any Yiddish books published outside the hassidic sector sell 1,000 in the span of a year.

The books in the 'Harry Potter' series.

'Harry Potter' series receives official Yiddish translation

Translated by an Indian-American Orthodox Jew and published in Sweden, the story behind the translation is fascinating in its own right

The books in the 'Harry Potter' series.

French language learning platform under fire after racist rhetoric creeps into translations

LICRA used their Twitter account to publish some of the examples of racism and antisemitism prevalent within some of the proposed translations offered on the website.

Picture of a translation provided by he website Reverso Context when searching for the translation of the word "nicer."