Microsoft's upstart search engine Bing continues its push to compete with Google in terms of usability and overall cultural impact. The latest effort being a tie-up with the popular Star Trek franchise.
Here at DVICE, you have our attention anytime someone talks about a universal translator, so we're definitely interested in the latest developments from Microsoft in which chief research officer Rick Rashid demonstrated software that converted his speech into Chinese — in real time, and in his own voice.