Translation-/Language-Newsticker 2006

SumTotal launches Translation software
andhracafe.com - (2006/12/29)
SumTotal® Systems has released ToolBook® Translation System (TTS) version 1.0 to enable customers translate e-learning content for their global workforces. ...
NYC's language issues adds challenge to emergency planning
silive.com - (2006/12/29)
... The city has made efforts to address the problem. Among other things, the guide for a coastal storm situation is in 11 languages, with more on the way. And 311, the city's information number, can be used in 170 languages. ...
Lost in free translation
sunjournal.com - (2006/12/27)
The next time you head to a Web site that translates text from one language to another for free, keep in mind that these literal resources usually provide only the gist of the words. Consider the funny case of the wily Mexican song "La Bamba." ...
IBM bridging language barriers
thejournalnews.com - (2006/12/26)
Salim Roukos is knocking down language barriers that make communication challenging between countries and cultures. Those barriers are particularly obvious in the foreign-language Internet sites that are unintelligible to Americans who speak English only. ...
Government's Answer to Translator Shortage: Call Center Tech
crmbuyer.com - (2006/12/23)
The CIA does not disclose its officers' language capabilities, but Robert Baer, a retired CIA agent, estimates that he was the agency's only undercover officer fluent in Arabic when he operated in Beirut in the mid-1980s. It takes about eight years to train a CIA officer to be "completely comfortable" speaking Arabic, says Baer. ...
Sudan Blocks Google Arabic Translation
mathaba.net - (2006/12/21)
... Any sites using the Arabic online translation provided free of charge by Google are blocked by the regime's telecommunication company "SudaTel". It is not yet clear what method is used to block, but the Google IP 64.233.179.104 is not blocked, however the translation service on that IP is blocked to people in Sudan, King confirmed. ...
Bloggers set spoken word challenge
theherald.co.uk - (2006/12/20)
... The challenge is being set by the manufacturers of a best-selling speech recognition program to prove that speed and accuracy outstrips traditional text input from computer keyboards....
Military tests portable translators
usatoday.com - (2006/12/19)
... (DARPA) began field-testing portable devices aimed at allowing soldiers to carry on conversations with Iraqis without relying on a human translator. The machines are designed to translate spoken English or Iraqi Arabic and play the translation in real time through a software-driven speaker mounted on a laptop computer or a small handheld device. ...
Multilingual employees get a bonus
beaufortgazette.com - (2006/12/17)
Argentino Calvo, a Bolivian-born paramedic and firefighter with the Hilton Head Island Fire and Rescue Division who speaks five languages, is the Swiss army knife of communication. ...
Hope of escape lost in translation
timesonline.co.uk - (2006/12/17)
Providing interpreters instead of encouraging immigrants to speak English keeps them in their ghettos, says Zia Haider Rahman. It’s a shocking figure: more than £100m was spent in the past year on translating and interpreting for British residents who don’t speak English. ...
The Economist: Brussels v the English language or Babelling on
novinite.com - (2006/12/15)
In their loftier moments Brussels politicians say that languages are an expression of the European Union's unity in diversity. What they seldom admit is that languages are a logistical and expensive headache, as well as a cause of nationalistic squabbles....
Mathematics is being adapted into the "language of surgery"
playfuls.com - (2006/12/10)
Complex surgical tasks occur in a series of steps resembling the way words, sentences and paragraphs are used to convey language, ... The procedures were broken down into simple gestures that could correspond mathematically with computer software. ...
The Tower of Babel in a single classroom?
tes.co.uk - (2006/12/08)
... Mrs Talliard's Year 6 class in this primary in Brent, north-west London, may be the most linguistically diverse in Britain: 30 pupils with 19 different languages. The children come from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Eritrea, Ghana, Turkey, India and Jamaica, among others. ...
After 10 years, IBM to return to CES
news.com.com - (2006/12/08)
... Instead, the company will tout lower-level technology that gadget makers can use, such as technology for nearly instantaneous translation of speech into Arabic or Chinese, ...
Me Translate Pretty One Day
wired.com - (2006/12/04)
Spanish to English? French to Russian? Computers haven't been up to the task. But a New York firm with an ingenious algorithm and a really big dictionary is finally cracking the code. ...
Translation gets mothers seal of approval
nypost.com - (2006/11/30)
When Liz Ranta couldn't console 2-month-old Max, she felt like the "worst mother in the world." "My husband and I would just look at each other like, 'What do we do?' " That was before the Dunstan Baby Language explained to her exactly what Max was saying. ...
11 languages Speereo Voice Translator for Sony Ericsson M600, P990, W95
mobileguru.co.uk - (2006/11/29)
With Speereo Voice Translator you say a phrase in one of 11 languages and it gets immediately translated into the other. About 4.000 most commonly used phrases. ...
Translate.org.za wins African ICT Achiever 2006 Award
digitalopportunity.org - (2006/11/28)
The work of Translate.org.za includes the translation of computer software into 11 official languages of South Africa by using local translator and creating the first South African keyboard. ...
Bible translated in Oriya dialect
zeenews.com - (2006/11/25)
The Bible translated in 'Kui' dialect was released at a special function held here today. This is the second time that the Bible has been published by the Bible Society of India (BSI) in a tribal dialect of Orissa, the first being in Saura dialect in 1998. ...
A word to the wise: Choose the right translator
iht.com - (2006/11/24)
When Alain Thienot, a professor of business administration at a French engineering school, decided to translate a classic French finance text into English for his international students, he bought a top-rated computer translation program to do the job, rather than hire a translator. ...
TechCrunch: Cucumis - A Small, Free Translation Community
newsfactor.com - (2006/11/21)
We came across Paris based Cucumis this evening. It is a community site for people who speak at least two languages and want to trade translation services. Translate text to earn points, then spend the points to have text translated into one of 22 languages. ...
Bilingual films: Lost in translation?
indiatimes.com - (2006/11/19)
Even though very few bilingual or multilingual films have managed to strike gold at the box office, filmmakers are going ahead and announcing films in this genre. They may not have been able to break records and set the box office on fire till now, but the multilingual films are here to stay. ...
GIFT SHOP Food translation cards
chron.com - (2006/11/17)
Product: Food translation cards • Motivation: Fun as they are, most foreign language guides share a common failing: They teach you how to parrot common phrases, but not how to discern whether your message has been understood. ...
Not Lost in Translation
technologyreview.com - (2006/11/15)
As computer programmers develop new techniques for translating texts between languages with different alphabets, they are increasingly turning to a science that seems to have little in common with the conventions of grammar: statistics. ...
Lost in translation: More on the crimes of Google translation
blogs.zdnet.com - (2006/11/10)
Stevej offers in comments about my previous posting an explanation as to why machine translation is so bad, concluding ...
Bible Translators Target 250 African Languages in 10 Years
christianpost.com - (2006/11/09)
A Bible translation association will be in the process of translating 250 African languages in the sub-Saharan region of Africa within a 10-year time frame, according to recently announced plans. ...
Google tops translation ranking
nature.com - (2006/11/07)
Google has built an English translation tool for Chinese and Arabic texts using a team that speaks neither of the two languages. The system, which last week topped an international exercise to find the best Chinese and Arabic translation technology, ...
Building the government's translation machine, one year at a time
centredaily.com - (2006/11/03)
The past few years have shown that U.S. government intelligence goes only so far. One of the biggest challenges is recognizing vital information in foreign languages -- and acting quickly on it. ...
Unicode 5.0 continues toppling of Tower of Babel
itmanagersjournal.com - (2006/11/02)
The ultimate goal of the Unicode Consortium is to define all human languages for use with computers. That goal is still some ways off, but, with the release of version 5.0 of the Unicode standard after nearly three years of work, ...
Language Weavers Automated Translation Software Shines in NIST Evaluations
businesswire.com - (2006/11/01)
Language Weaver, a leading software company developing enterprise software for the automated translation of human languages, today announced its software showed the highest accuracy among software programs that are commercially available, on the official evaluation metric used in government-conducted evaluations. ...
Now, a computer that translates as you speak
zeenews.com - (2006/10/27)
U.S. researchers are developing a device called "Tower of Babel" that will make it possible for users to silently mouth a word in their own language and have it translated and said in another. ...
Translation Droid Deployed
strategypage.com - (2006/10/27)
The U.S. Army is sending yet another language-translation device to the troops. This one, called Mastor (Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator), is translation software that does not, as in the past, require the user to speak a long list of words and phrases into a microphone, ...
IBM Aims Translation-By-Email Service at Teachers
abcnews.go.com - (2006/10/23)
IBM recently added email translation to their Tradúcelo Ahora (Translate It Now) translation program so that school teachers can communicate with their pupils' Spanish-speaking parents. ...
Some voting machines will speak Navajo this election
abqtrib.com - (2006/10/19)
Translating English into Navajo can be complicated by the variety of that American Indian language, explained Zane James, Native American election coordinator with the Secretary of State's Office. ...
RantNetwork-Launch of Premier Image Translator for European and Asian Mobile Markets
emediawire.com - (2006/10/19)
... The "Communilator" gives mobile customers the ability to take a picture of a document, newspaper heading, sign or any picture with text and translate into 16 currently available languages. ...
Over-the-phone translation may ease immigrants' lives
dailynews.com - (2006/10/18)
... A collaboration between telecom giant AT&T and interpretation provider Language Line Services, the Your World, Your Language service is the latest effort by companies and government agencies to reach out to immigrants, tourists and business travelers whose English is limited. ...
IBM's speech recognition technology headed for trial use in Iraq
engadget.com - (2006/10/13)
... AKA Mastor combines speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech technologies to create a common translation engine that is apparently independent of languages. The ...
Google promises to break down language barrier
wpherald.com - (2006/10/12)
"In five to ten years, we will be able to access all information from all countries, without regard to language." This is what was said by Alan Eustace, senior vice president of Google in a keynote ...
AppTek Scores Best on "Noisy Data" Under NIST Machine Translation MT06 Evaluation
marketwire.com - (2006/10/10)
AppTek's machine translation system scored best on "noisy data" (i.e. text from speech input, newsgroups, etc. as opposed to "clean data" like newswire text) in the most recent National Institute of Standards & Technology evaluation, ...
IBM gives schools translation software
hemscott.com - (2006/10/06)
IBM Corp. on Monday plans to unveil the latest version of a grant program that uses translation software to enable Spanish-speaking parents to communicate with their children's English-speaking teachers. ...
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.0 Preferred
pcadvisor.co.uk - (2006/10/05)
Voice-recognition software has come a long way in the past few years. Where once you had to spend hours training it to understand your voice, now you can almost start working from scratch. D ...
Sharp's portable voice translator talks back at CEATEC
engadget.com - (2006/10/04)
... Sharp's currently unnamed voice-to-voice translator allows for speech recognition and convenient audio translation so you can actually hear what you're supposed to say. ...
Translation services demand on the rise
lfpress.ca - (2006/10/02)
As London becomes more multicultural, service providers must get comfortable with the idea of using translators to help those in need, a diversity forum was told. ...
HAL Will Be Here A Little Later
computerworld.com - (2006/10/02)
... Another application we can expect to see in a few years is bidirectional translation of conversations. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), for example, is funding research into handheld or helmet-mounted devices for use by troops in the field. ...
Translation important for the future of search, says Googles Jeff Levick at AdTech London
multilingual-search.com - (2006/09/29)
Googles vertical markets director, Jeff Levick, highlighted the importance of translation, machine translation in other words, during the Future of Search panel debate at Londons AdTech, which I was fortunate enough to moderate. ...
Do yourself a favour and become a cunning linguist
gateway.ualberta.ca - (2006/09/21)
“Pffft, English. Who needs that? I’m never going to England.” Educated, worldly university students might laugh at Homer Simpson’s words, but let’s face it: how many of these same students have expressed a similar attitude at the thought of taking a second-language course? ...
IBM Technology Translates Arabic Media Broadcasts to English
hardwarezone.com - (2006/09/20)
... Codenamed "TALES" (for Translingual Automatic Language Exploitation System), the IBM technology processes the audio signal from Arabic television and radio stations and translates its spoken content into English text. ...
Machine Translation: I'm Sick of Waiting
abcnews.go.com - (2006/09/18)
The way I see it, if computers can now play a credible world-class game of chess, then they should be able to translate complex sentences written in the world's major languages. ...
PSP – Talkman
varsity.co.nz - (2006/09/09)
Talkman is the new tool for your PSP. Talk into the microphone, choose from the list of phrases and let the Talkman translate for you into English, French, German, Spanish, Italian or Japanese. ...
Translated City websites soon to make sense
sanfranciscosentinel.com - (2006/09/08)
Translated City websites are slated to finally make sense for Chinese and Spanish readers, members of The Mayor's Cultural Competency Task Force announced yesterday. Current 'machine' translations churn out "nonsense, gibberish, an embarrassment," acknowledged Mayor Gavin Newsom. ...
What Is Your Asia Strategy For The Global Customer Base?
webpronews.com - (2006/09/05)
... Today that is largely done with machine translation, which is far from perfect and can lead to serious misunderstandings. But the vast majority of netrepreneurs are small shops without the resources to hire human translators; without a multilingual site, however, they are leaving money on the table and millions of potential customers in the dark. ...
Connecting with Customers Who Don't Speak English
insurancenetworking.com - (2006/09/01)
With sophisticated CRM solutions, many insurers are communicating with customers, regardless of their language. ...
Google's automatic language detection and translation service
zdnet.com - (2006/08/31)
Translating text between languages is an interesting problem to solve - and solving problems is a perfect way to use some of the extra brain power that can be found at Google. ...
Microsoft helps promote indigenous language
miami.com - (2006/08/26)
Bolivia's president teams up with Microsoft to release a new Quechua translation for Microsoft Windows. ...
Brazil: The Perils of Translation
gringoes.com - (2006/08/26)
... Yet most people seem to treat translation as a machine-like substitution. (Try back translating from English to Portuguese to English using software to see the mess that machine translation produces.) To make things worse, translators are never given enough time to do the job as well as they are capable. ...
Lingo24 Releases New Versions of ContexTrans Tool - Adds Chinese
newswiretoday.com - (2006/08/24)
Leading language translation services provider Lingo24 has released new versions of ContexTrans, its recently launched machine translation tool and dictionary, incorporating the Chinese language. ...
PROMT Translation Server on AOL Reference portal
prleap.com - (2006/08/22)
Smart Link Corporation and PROMT - the leading providers of innovative multilingual technologies – announced that AOL has chosen ImTranslator powered by PROMT® Translation Server for AOL Reference portal. ...
Creative Commons uses SA language tool
tectonic.co.za - (2006/08/17)
Alternative licensing organisation Creative Commons (CC) has adopted the South African-led Pootle translation tool to translate its ccHost and ccPublisher software. ...
Ectaco, Inc. Itravl tl-2/10 Revolutionizes Handheld Translation - Again
financevisor.com - (2006/08/14)
Ectaco, Inc. releases a new handheld translation device that allows people to communicate in 10 non-English languages. The device is very user friendly and affords people who travel to numerous destinations more options. ...
New Translator for PDA – Pocket PROMT 5.0
prleap.com - (2006/08/12)
... Windows Mobile 5.0 ... French-German-French and English- French-English, additionally to existing translation directions with increased General Dictionaries volume: English-Russian-English, German-Russian-German, English-German-English, and English-Spanish-English. ...
Bulgaria to bring Cyrillic letters to EU
dailyindia.com - (2006/08/11)
...The EU headquarters in Brussels has one of the world's largest translation services, and the union should face no problem adding Cyrillic to the languages already in use, ...
Extinction of Languages Puts Plants and Animals at Risk
livescience.com - (2006/08/11)
... More than half of the world's 7,000 languages are endangered; many face extinction in the next century. Interestingly, the projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) could save more than just a few mother tongues. It might also protect plants and animals. ...
Transcripts from God
pressofatlanticcity.com - (2006/08/11)
... The company comes from a generally Protestant interpretation as it works toward providing Bibles in 6,912 languages by 2025. The firm's Web site says it already has translated the New Testament in 623 languages and is working in 1,294 languages. ...
Iran campaigns against Western language
rawstory.com - (2006/08/05)
Before and after the revolution, more and more Western terms - mainly French and English - had also invaded the language, causing deep concern among Tehran's rulers over the so-called "Western cultural invasion" ...
Microsoft to do a human interpreter
indiatimes.com - (2006/08/04)
Not comfortable chatting in English over the internet? No problem. Microsoft is working on a prototype that will enable you to chat in real time with your friend in her/his mother tongue, ...
Prisoner lost in translation
msnbc.msn.com - (2006/08/04)
Spanish-speaking inmate jailed 2 months after case is closed ...
Doughnuts get down and dirty when lost in translation
theaustralian.news.com.au - (2006/08/03)
THE great paradox of the information age is that we live in a globalised world in which there has never been more immediate access available to almost infinite knowledge about anything and everything, yet the most important information we need is local. ...
Association for Machine Translation in the Americas Opens Its Conference Doors to Public ...
itbusinessnet.com - (2006/08/01)
Machine Translation Making Definite Inroads beyond Just Government Usage ...
New Google Services in the Pipeline!
ineedhits.com - (2006/08/01)
... Tony speculates that it might be related to the statistical machine translation system that Google's working on. ...
World's first translation software for cell phone launched in Xiamen
people.com.cn - (2006/07/28)
... With storage of 0.1 million words, the world's first translation software for cell phone can translate a common sentence from Chinese to English or from English to Chinese ...
Federal help sought to save native languages
freenewmexican.com - (2006/07/28)
... Of about 500 American Indian languages that existed before European immigration to North America, only about 100 still exist and 20 are spoken by American Indian children, ...
Language Barriers Cause Hospitals Problems
todaysthv.com - (2006/07/25)
... Nereida Marruffo, 13, is in Arkansas Children's Hospital for an in-patient procedure. She's speaks English just fine, but her parents speak only Spanish....
No hablo Español
reflector.com - (2006/07/22)
A language barrier can be frustrating, but for 911 telecommunicators, understanding a caller means knowing whether to send a fire truck or an ambulance. ...
Babelfish is Happening!
audaud.com - (2006/07/21)
This may sound like a mind-bending hoax but it is real. A New York based firm called Voxonic Inc. has developed revolutionary computer software which is able to convert the voice of any person into any other known world language! ...
How do you say it?
iht.com - (2006/07/20)
... If you don't want to tote a stack of travel-phrase cheat sheets on your next trans-Atlantic trip, consider a digital alternative like the Ectaco Partner EW800 Talking Electronic Dictionary and Audio PhraseBook. ...
Lingobit Localizer goes global
press-world.com - (2006/07/17)
Lingobit Localizer is now multilingual with user interface supporting seven most popular languages. ... available in seven languages including English, German, Japanese, French, Russian, Chinese and Spanish. ...
Cost in translation: EU spends 1bn Euro on language services
independent.co.uk - (2006/07/16)
... The figure has stoked the debate on whether the EU is becoming an outrageously expensive "Tower of Babel". ...
Silicon Valley device tackles Iraq's language barrier
mercurynews.com - (2006/07/15)
A frustrated U.S. soldier urgently asks an Iraqi villager about insurgent attacks. The Iraqi responds, but is anxious and reserved. An interpreter tries to bridge the language gap, but may have his own agenda and biases. ...
SRI International Deploys Portable Speech-to-Speech Translation System for Investigative Fielding in Iraq
businesswire.com - (2006/07/12)
... The IraqComm system performs spontaneous bidirectional translation, and has a vocabulary of nearly 40,000 English and 50,000 Iraqi Arabic words. The system runs on industry-standard laptop and tablet PCs. ...
Translate Or Create: Strategies For Those With English-Language Sites
seroundtable.com - (2006/07/11)
... What percentage of people on Earth speak English as preferred language? Less than 20%. Spanish? More than English. Most popular language? Chinese. Success is not just about translation. ...
Read My Lips: A World Cup Mystery Unfolds
dw-world.de - (2006/07/11)
... The truly fascinating thing about Ms. Rees is that she offers lip-reading services in several languages. She does not necessarily understand Italian, Russian, Arabic or Punjabi, but she can apparently create a phonetic transcript out of any foreign language she sees on a video tape. The transcript is then given to professional translators to be translated into English. ...
WordNet, a widely used lexical database for the English lanuage, was launched at university.
zwire.com - (2006/07/07)
... Even if the "very ambitious goal" of machine translation can one day be achieved, she said, her best guess is that works of literature will never translate very well — and that's not necessarily a bad thing, she said. ...
Denver opens 3-1-1 phone info service
denver.bizjournals.com - (2006/07/07)
Denver has launched a new system designed to expedite services such as getting a marriage license and scheduling a building inspection. ... The multilingual service can communicate with callers in 182 languages. ...
Nativetext Translates RSS Feeds
digitaldivide.net - (2006/07/04)
Nativetext is a great idea for spreading information across languages. ...
Catalan, Basque and Galician get EU language boost
euobserver.com - (2006/07/04)
EU citizens speaking Catalan, Basque or Galician can now communicate with the European Parliament in their own language, ...
Dog whisperer speaks volumes to pet owners, trainers
bradenton.com - (2006/07/04)
He's the man to call when your dog flips you a dew claw. Or growls. Or bites. Human translation for such deeds: Fido is thumbing his snout at you. ...
Aborigines 'missing out' on millions in cultural funding
abc.net.au - (2006/07/04)
... Although many Aboriginal languages and tribal practices are dying, the Governm
Translating babble into Babel
smh.com.au - (2006/06/30)
There's a message coming through, captain - translation software, the science-fiction dream of a machine that understands any language, has taken a step closer to reality. ...
Anti-smoking messages need translation
straight.com - (2006/06/29)
To meet multicultural needs, Lower Mainland organizations rely mainly on QuitNow by phone, which is funded by the B.C. Ministry of Health. The free service has translation upon request in 130 languages, including Farsi, Cantonese, Mandarin, Arabic, Bengali, and Thai. ...
Company joins CMU-RC
cmich.edu - (2006/06/27)
A Midland-based translation company is the newest affiliate of the CMU Research Corporation's Technology Business Accelerator Program. ...
Ectaco, Inc. Unveils All-Purpose Language Solution For Western European Languages
emediawire.com - (2006/06/26)
The latest invention in translating handhelds has just been announced by linguistic electronic industry leader ECTACO, INC. ... the Partner EW800 is able to fine-tune to an individual users voice and can recognize what is said to it in 6 popular Western European languages.
Translating phone calls around the globe
miami.com - (2006/06/26)
To reach consumers worldwide, a Monterey, Calif.-based telephone translation ser
True feelings lost in translation
smh.com.au - (2006/06/23)
IF ANYTHING epitomises two centuries of difficult dialogue between white and black Australians, says Keith Vincent Smith, it is the mistranslation of the word "beal" by Philip Gidley King of the First Fleet. ...
How language lives and dies
thezimbabwean.co.uk - (2006/06/22)
Shona and Ndebele have become languages of the diaspora - Translation keeps language alive ...
Lost in translation at the doctor's office
centredaily.com - (2006/06/19)
Carolyn Roth recalled her experience with a patient who was told he had hypertension. When someone else in the room asked if he knew what that meant, "He said that means you can't sit still very well. ...
Modern Vandalism - Genocide Against Historical Names
demaz.org - (2006/06/14)
... According to him, in this atlas, 40,000 geographic names will be registered, thereby 8,000-10,000 geographic names belonging to other languages will be replaced by Armenian names. ...
Learn foreign languages with open source software
software.newsforge.com - (2006/06/13)
... Besides applications like jVLT, jMemorize, and StarDict, there are other tools that are not designed specifically for language learning, but they can make the learning process more efficient and fun. ...
Lost in translation
btobonline.com - (2006/06/12)
Localizing your Web site for international users requires more than hurdling a few language barriers ...
Govt to fund Aboriginal language dictionary
abc.net.au - (2006/06/11)
The New South Wales Government hopes the creation of an Aboriginal languages dictionary will help revive the study of traditional languages in the state's schools. ...
Bridging the Language Gap
firstcoastnews.com - (2006/06/09)
The changing face of Jacksonville can be seen by the number of different languages being handled by 911 emergency dispatchers. Last year, dispatchers handled calls from people representing three dozen languages. ...
TalkMan For PSP
coolhunting.com - (2006/06/09)
Okay, I'll admit upfront that this has a somewhat tenuous link to the World Cup, but with people from 32 nations following their team to Germany, communicating could be a bit of problem. ...
Translator lets computers "understand" experiments
newscientisttech.com - (2006/06/07)
A framework for translating the write-ups of experiments into a format that can be processed by computers has been developed by academics. ...
Lost in the language of signs
cnn.com - (2006/06/07)
No matter if you've packed a map, read your guidebook or listened to your language tapes, sooner or later every traveler looks to signposts for help. ...
German iPod Translator
podcastingnews.com - (2006/06/07)
The Translator has a user-friendly menu system to provide access of over 750 MP3s of German words and phrases. ...
Preserving English through Latin
philly.com - (2006/06/06)
THERE IS A great debate today about making English the official language of the United States, as if English needs inoculation from the influence of foreign tongues. ...
Free Language and Translation Tools Launched ...
prleap.com - (2006/06/04)
Lingo24 is delighted to announce the launch of a new automatic translation tool ... The first version is bow available, and works in both directions between Arabic and English. ...
IraqComm computer cracks language barriers
zdnet.com - (2006/06/04)
Four years after the Phraselator, which was designed to recognize a thousand of English phrases, a team of computer scientists from SRI International is delivering the IraqComm device to U.S. military personnel in Iraq....
No perdido en la traducción
mcgill.ca - (2006/06/01)
The market for translation is, to put it simply, exploding - growing at a rate of 15 to 20 percent per year. ...
Verizon Wireless Translates Foreign Languages on Phones
mobiledia.com - (2006/06/01)
Verizon Wireless today launched their foreign language applications for Get It Now-enabled wireless phones, allowing travelers to brush up on their Spanish, French, Japanese, or German. ...
Maryland lost in translation
baltimoresun.com - (2006/05/30)
Ask people which states have a horrible language problem, and they are likely to name Florida, Texas and California. Maryland won't be mentioned. ...
World Language
progressiveu.org - (2006/05/29)
Since the demise of Latin in the 15th century the world has lacked an official language of communication. The EU has two working languages (French and English) while the UN has six (French, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, English and Spanish). ...
Students Document a Disappearing Language
voanews.com - (2006/05/25)
In the highlands of southwest Kenya, about a million and a half people speak an unwritten language called Kisii. Halfway around the world from the coffee and maize farms of Kisii district, students at the University of New Hampshire are developing a rulebook for the language. ...
A portable game console is helping travellers mind their language
theage.com.au - (2006/05/24)
... The star of TalkMan, Max can understand spoken sentences and instantly translate into Japanese, German, Italian, French or Spanish. ...
Lost in translation
guardian.co.uk - (2006/05/23)
The Brits often assume that Germans have no sense of humour. In truth, writes comedian Stewart Lee, it's a language problem. The peculiarities of German sentence construction simply rule out the lazy set-ups that British comics rely on ...
Besta than a dictionary
newpaper.asia1.com.sg - (2006/05/22)
ARE dictionaries and encyclopaedias destined for the trash bin? With more traditional reference texts going electronic, there seems to be little need for those heavy books that generations have lugged around grudgingly. ...
In hospitals, health is lost in translation
nydailynews.com - (2006/05/21)
It is a matter of life or death. Communication barriers at city hospitals are endangering the health of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. ...
Let non-English visitors read your website
news.moneycontrol.com - (2006/05/19)
Imagine someone coming to your site and leaving it the very next moment, not because the content was bad but because the site content was not written in his native language. It is a perfect case of a missed opportunity. ...
Skype Translation A Human Technology Mix
voipnews.com.au - (2006/05/15)
The new on-the-fly translation services available to Skype users, contains a mix of technologies to achieve its goal of spontaneous communication between callers speaking English and 150 languages, but it's not a true Babelfish. ...
Internet's No-Cost Automated Translations Can Damage Corporate Reputation
emediawire.com - (2006/05/11)
Every sentence in an incorrectly translated non-English blog post about your company could be a minefield, says Sloan Friedman, president of SRF Global Translations. ...
Terrorism helps fuel interest in language study
hamiltonspectator.com - (2006/04/15)
... The U.S. president pledged this year to pour money into the teaching of so-called strategic languages. These include Chinese and Farsi, the majority language of Iran, as well as Arabic. ...
Handwriting recognizer runs on Windows CE
windowsfordevices.com - (2006/04/14)
The MyScript Builder SDK allows developers to integrate "high accuracy" handwriting recognition capabilities, in a wide range of Western and Asian languages, into applications such as note-taking, ...
Yale University develops online Arabic library
arabamericannews.com - (2006/04/14)
Library administrators at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, are cataloging Middle Eastern journals from libraries in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, and converting Arabic-language texts to a digital storage medium in a project to create a virtual library of Middle Eastern culture. ...
Language and the law
tmcnet.com - (2006/04/13)
Growing up in Garden Grove, Nora Preciado felt nervous whenever her parents felt sick. That's because she had to explain their symptoms to the doctor and translate the diagnosis into Spanish. ...
One-Millionth English Word Expected Soon
abc4.com - (2006/04/13)
The ever-evolving English language should be adopting its one-millionth word sometime this summer, experts say. ...
Indigenous Languages in Final Throes
ipsnews.net - (2006/04/13)
Hundreds of languages disappeared from Latin America and the Caribbean over the past 500 years, and many of the more than 600 that have survived could face the same fate in the not-so-distant future. ...
Translating from legalese
burlingtonfreepress.com - (2006/04/08)
How well do you know the difference between a felony and a misdemeanor, or superior and district court? What about the definition of plaintiff or arraignment?...
Money talks, in many languages: Companies seek polyglot employees
yomiuri.co.jp - (2006/04/08)
From bilingualism to trilingualism. Not only are many companies with overseas operations raising the level of English communication proficiency required for promotion, some of them are going further and requiring employees to study a second foreign language, such as Chinese. ...
Going beyond the alphabet
centredaily.com - (2006/04/07)
Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a computer keyboard pad that should make typing tasks like Web browsing easier for millions of people in India who read and write languages that don't translate well into a Western alphabet. ...
PSP goes to language school
stuffmag.co.uk - (2006/03/28)
The PSP isn’t satisfied with just being multi-talented and multimedia – it’ll soon be multilingual too thanks to a new interactive language translator. ...
First Dual-Language Film and Cast in Production
keyt.com - (2006/03/28)
Filming in both English and Mandarin, this feature film will have two versions made simultaneously with two sets of separate casts. ...
Online language instruction booming in China
realcities.com - (2006/03/28)
Chinese instructors are teaching their language to students around the world without ever leaving China, as Liu Yang recently demonstrated while sitting in a cubicle peering at a streaming video image on her computer monitor. ...
From Acholi to Zulu, Ireland a land of over 167 languages
ireland.com - (2006/03/25)
More than 167 languages are being used in Ireland, according to research conducted by academics at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. ...
The Race to Preserve a Dying Language
tbsource.com - (2006/03/24)
There are fewer than 1,000 speakers of Michif in the world, and many of them are dying faster than their words can be recorded. ...
Lost in translation?
tahlequahdailypress.com - (2006/03/24)
“I was going to say he’s a piece of work, but that might not translate too well. Is that all right, if I call you a ‘piece of work’?” - President George W. Bush to Jean-Claude Juncker, , ...
Is U.S. lost in linguistics of terrorism?
deseretnews.com - (2006/03/21)
The examples of ideas lost in translation are both funny (English sign on an Asian restaurant: "For restrooms, go back toward your behind") and dangerous ...
Need for language experts important
heraldextra.com - (2006/03/21)
It takes less time to train an airman to become a fighter pilot than it takes to train an Arabic interpreter, but the accuracy of the latter may be more important to national security, ...
The Translator's Blues
newtelephony.com - (2006/03/20)
TelePlus Group has signed a deal with Digitrad France to provide some foreign language-assisted services to Skype customers. ...
Repetez, en anglais, s'il vous plait.
technologyreview.com - (2006/01/18)
Most commercial language translation software is pretty bad -- but there may be a better way. ...
Robotic hand translates speech into sign language
yomiuri.co.jp - (2006/01/16)
An 80-centimeter robotic hand that can covert spoken words and simple phrases into sign language has been developed in a town in Fukuoka Prefecture. ...
The Translator's Blues
slate.com - (2006/01/09)
Will I get replaced by a computer program?
I work at a large international organization translating speeches from French, Spanish, and Russian. When a rumor began spreading in my office that our jobs were to be "supplemented" by computer translation software, we mostly laughed it off. ...
MacSpeech releases Spanish LanguagePak
macnn.com - (2006/01/09)
MacSpeech (booth 738) today announced a new Spanish LanguagePak for its popular iListen speech recognition program. The new LanguagePak allows Mac users to dictate and issue commands in Spanish and includes translations for all the commands available in the basic English version of iListen. ...
NEC Develops Japanese<->Chinese Speech Translation Software
itnewsonline.com - (2006/01/04)
NEC Corp. has developed an automatic, Japanese<->Chinese speech translation software, capable of real-time, speech-to-speech translation of travel-related Chinese and Japanese conversation on a PDA....
Government Business Intelligence and Translation
b-eye-network.com - (2005/12/08)
Language translation is becoming increasingly important to business intelligence within the public sector. In a recent TIME Magazine article about Iraq there was a disturbing quote. It regarded the amount of captured documents that military intelligence could not analyze since they couldn’t be translated. ...
Language Weaver Offers New Language Translation Module for Farsi
tmcnet.com - (2005/11/30)
New Language Offering to Support Government Needs and Those of Multinational Companies Working with Middle Eastern Companies ...
Defense Department taps BBN Technologies for language translation work
washingtontechnology.com - (2005/11/28)
With the United States involved in military operations around the globe, quickly translating foreign language speech and texts into useful information for military officials is critical....
Technologies Eliminate Language Barriers
discovery.com - (2005/11/21)
New kinds of speech recognition and translation systems could one day lead to tiny mouth and throat implants that would let a person instantly speak other languages. ...
War-Zone Test for Babel-Fish Tool
wired.com - (2005/11/18)
...Funded by Darpa, the system would allow troops to communicate in Arabic through a laptop computer equipped with voice recognition and translation software. Troops could speak in English and have their words instantly translated into Iraqi Arabic, "spoken" by a computerized man's voice. ....
Maran's offer on multilingual technology
hindu.com - (2005/11/17)
Tunis: Communications and Information Technology Minister Dayanidhi Maran has offered the world community Indian technology developed to address multi-language challenges. ...
Russian mashine translation engine sent to the orbit with NASA astronauts
regnum.ru - (2005/11/16)
Russian PROMT Company completed an agreement with NASA about the use of its system machine translation by the International Space Station. ...
Mind/Computer Interface Advances
internetnews.com - (2005/11/16)
Speech recognition is often heralded as one of the next great ease-of-use breakthroughs....
Exploring New Speech Recognition And Synthesis APIs In Windows Vista
microsoft.com - (2005/11/15)
This article discusses: Introduction to speech recognition and synthesis - The Windows Vista speech recognition experience - Windows Vista Speech APIs - Controlling pronunciation and creating grammars ...
Ovid goes multilingual
iwr.co.uk - (2005/11/11)
Medical content delivery specialist Ovid has announced a multilingual web interface, allowing users search in 80 languages than English....
Garmin's Swiss Army Knife GPS
stuffmag.co.uk - (2005/11/10)
Say bonjour, guten tag and ciao to the Garmin Nuvi, a sat-nav with a bewildering array of features - including Bablefish-style translation....
Epson Introduces Multilingual Text to Speech Synthesis Chip
epson.co.jp - (2005/11/07)
Epson today announced availability of its multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis chip for embedded applications. The S1V30100 is a highly integrated companion chip that provides a complete decode path from text input to analog output via headphones or audio line level output signals. ...
Language Weaver Rolls Out Upgrade To Translation Software
socaltech.com - (2005/10/27)
Los Angeles-based Language Weaver has rolled out an upgrade to its automated translation software. ...
In a few years, you might be able to speak Spanish, French and English--and all at the same time.
zdnet.com - (2005/10/27)
Alex Waibel, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and Germany's University of Karlsruhe, plans to demonstrate a host of software and hardware on Thursday at CMU's Pittsburgh campus. The technology could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other....
Free translation software for Linux
heise.de - (2005/10/27)
Under the name OpenLogos GlobalWare AG is offering to private individuals, universities and other public institutions a free translation system for Linux. The software can be downloaded from the website of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)....
More Freie Übersetzungssoftware für Linux
heise.de - (2005/10/26)
Unter dem Namen OpenLogos bietet die GlobalWare AG ein Übersetzungssystem für Linux an, das für Privatpersonen, Universitäten und andere öffentliche Einrichtungen frei verfügbar ist. Auf der Website des Deutschen Forschungszentrums für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) steht die Software zum Download bereit....
NEC Develops Speech-to-Speech Translation Software for Low Power Consumption
japancorp.net - (2005/10/24)
Multi-Core Processors Optimal for Small Devices such as Mobile Phones...
Speereo Voice Translator Version 2.1.1 Launched
brighthand.com - (2005/10/24)
Speereo Software has launched a new version of Speereo Voice Translator. This is a new improved version of popular speech product for Pocket PC and Pocket PC based smartphones....
Breaking Down Language Barriers
forbes.com - (2005/10/19)
Much sooner than you might expect, it will be possible for an American in New York to pick up a cell phone and have a conversation with a Chinese co-worker in Shanghai--with both people speaking their native languages. Cell phones, using sophisticated translation technology, will translate the conversation in real time...
CMU's InterACT Center will reverse Babel
thetartan.org - (2005/09/26)
A British doctor helping tsunami victims in Thailand wants to give advice to a patient. In the past, he'd tout along a translator; but today, he speaks into his PDA and in seconds, it's translating into Thai aloud...
Oman Mobile to launch new SMS translation service
strategiy.com - (2005/09/13)
Oman Telecommunications Company "Oman Mobile" www.omanmobile.om, Oman’s leading mobile telecommunications service provider, will launch next a new instant translation service for SMS messages for Oman mobile users which is based on Sakhr’s online translation technology.
New language challenge for the EU: Stop the English advance
taipeitimes - (2005/09/11)
The EU has a single currency, but what about a single language? Since its inception, the EU has made each member state's language one of its official tongues. Recently, even Irish, spoken at home by only a tiny minority, was granted full official status. ...
Grammar Lost Translation Machine In Researchers Fix Will
physorg.com - (2005/09/09)
The makers of a University of Southern California computer translation system consistently rated among the world's best are teaching their software something new: English grammar. ...

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