On Tuesday, Meta announced SeamlessM4T, a multimodal AI model for speech and text translations. As a neural network that can process both text and audio, it can perform text-to-speech, speech-to-text, ...

The dream of a Babel fish — the translating animal envisioned by classic science-fiction franchise The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — could be a bit closer to reality. Researchers at tech giant ...