Opinion: Language translation apps come of age

The advent of AI-driven translation tools is already making some question the need for learning foreign languages, now that digital devices can handle many of our interpretation and translation needs. — Photo by NordWood Themes on Unsplash

Though it still seems a bit like science fiction, we've reached the day where we can speak or type into our smartphones and have an artificial intelligence interpreter translate our speech or text into another language.

This is a game-changing tool for travellers, as well as for those of us who are monolingual English but live in the Southwest where Spanish is the primary language for many residents.