Accent on Languages

"The systems were not meant for interpretation."

"The feature uses Amazon’s speech recognition technology and neural machine translation technology to work, and supports translating between English and French, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese (Brazilian), German or Italian."

"In the coming year, I really hope that we have time to reflect on the things that we’ve learned about the barriers in our communities, barriers that have always been there but maybe weren’t as evident before as they are now.."

Watch ASL captioning for last night's Vice Presidential debate

"President Donald Trump's administration has quietly scaled back federal help that previously guided individuals with limited English proficiency."

"Immigrant children are so often given the responsibility of being their family’s translator"

"The primary focus of Gaelic policy should now be on relevant initiatives to avert the loss of vernacular Gaelic."

"This educational broadcaster will make it easier to be able to show more Inuktut content in Inuit homes."

"In almost all societies, language forms part of the intersection between race, nationality and social class."

"Language barriers can result in miscommunication that impacts a patient’s understanding of their condition or treatment this can be potentially life-changing or even life-threatening."