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Travis M. Andrews

Travis M. Andrews is a Washington, D.C.- and New Orleans-based contributing editor for Dvice and frequent contributor for Mashable and The New Orleans Advocate. He's also written for TIME, Esquire and The Atlantic.

Engineers and entrepreneurs want to make it possible for two people to converse in different languages, while a small device spits out translations in real time.

Kissing Language Barriers Goodbye

Google is paving the way for the universal voice translator, formerly a thing of science fiction. But will they actually help us communicate?