VerbalizeIt Releases Version 2.0 of Its Human-Powered Translation App
New York-based VerbalizeIt has released version 2.0 of the world’s first human-powered translation app. It provides real-time phone and internet-based access to a community of more...
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A New Italian Semantic Search Portal for Legal Professionals:
Wolters Kluwer Italy has launched a new portal for legal professionals called Studio Legale. It integrates solutions presents one search box where the user can insert any metadata, text or their...
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Oddcast Releases Online Speech API Vocalware
Oddcast, an Internet media solutions provider, has launched Vocalware, a cloud-based text-to-speech application programming interface for developers that integrates real-time speech into browser-based...
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Google Translate For Android Can Now Interpret 16 Additional Languages By...
Google Translate for Android now supports 16 additional languages and the recently introduced phrasebook feature is also available in that app to save the most useful phrases for easy reference later
View ArticleWebflakes Aims To Build A Lifestyle Web Destination With Crowdsourced...
A startup called Webflakes aims to bring some of the best international content on fashion, food, travel, and more to English-speaking readers with the help of volunteer translators. The site is...
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Multi-language customer feedback analysis: the right way to do sentiment and...
Many companies gather customer feedback in multiple languages. In the Americas, the main languages are English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. In Europe, there are even more languages to take into...
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Microsoft Launches Bing Translator for Windows
Windows has announced Bing Translator for Windows. It’s a touch-enabled version of Bing Translator for Windows Phone that is now available for Windows 8 laptops, desktops, and tablets. It will...
View ArticleWolters Kluwer Health Adds 9-Language Search to UpToDate Clinical Decision...
Wolters Kluwer Healthhas launched Search in Your Own Language capabilities for UpToDate®, an evidence-based, clinical decision support resource., covering Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French,...
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Fonetic and ASC Telekom Partner on Voice Search Solution for Banks
Germany-based ASC Telekom(call recording technologies) and Fonetic, a provider of speech analytics technologies, have entered into a global strategic partnership to foster government regulatory...
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Textalytics Launches Family of Industry-Specific Text Mining APIs
Spain-based Daedalus has launched Textalytics - a family of industry-specific semantic APIs. The company claims its RESTful APIs are plug-and-play, easy to use, and multilingual.
View ArticleDatalogic Announces Voice-Picking Solutions for Mobile Computers
Datalogic has launched voice-picking solutions for their mobile computer lines, which have received certification for the Wavelink Speakeasy voice-picking application, and can now be complemented by...
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Udemy Targets International Students with Support for 9 Foreign Languages
US online learning platform Udemy will support ten foreign languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Russia, and Turkish. Korean and Hindi ) using automatic...
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How Google Hopes to Use Neural Networks in Text Understanding
From interview with Google Research Fellow Jeff Dean: If we really understand the text we see, and the text you entered for a query, it might be possible to build user interfaces that read the things...
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Italian Incubator Digital Magics Listed on the Milan Stock Exchange
Digital Magics, a Milan-based incubator of Italian startups, has announced that Borsa Italiana admitted Digital Magics shares for trading on AIM Italia, the “Alternative Investment Market” for small...
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SwiftKey Cloud Now Available as Free Update in V4.2
SwiftKey Cloud is now ready for the masses. The Android keyboard can back up and sync customizations across devices, and even learn phrases that are trending across the globe.
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Nokia Launches a 'Connected Driving' Suite Of In-Car Navigation Services and...
Nokia is launching Connected Driving - HERE Auto for embedded in-car navigation; HERE Auto Cloud for extra services like real-time traffic updates; and HERE Auto Companion apps that will seamlessly...
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The Economist (or at Least one Blogger) Gets It Too
Europe’s best bet is ... multilingualism—and not just bilingualism. EU institutions should do still more to make sure European children learn early and fluently not just English, but another European...
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Pervoice Audio-to-Text Used by L'Eco della Stampa and TVEyes for Broadcast...
Italy-based Pervoice's audio-to-text for Italian technology was a key selling point for TVEyes media monitoring service recently chosen by L'Eco della Stampa (largest provider of media monitoring in...
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Language Startup Busuu reaches 35M Users, 20M Downloads
Busuu (language-learning) is now touching 35 million users and last year launched an app strategy that has now iterated that app into other 11 languages. So far they have had 20 million downloads...
View ArticleCereproc Recognised for its Multilingual Speech Synthesis Portfolio
Congratulations to Cereproc, the Edinburgh-based text to speech (TTS) supplier, who won a META Seal of Recognition last week at the META Forum in Berlin for their text to speech software products,...
View ArticleAmazon's Fire OS 3.0 "Mojito" Features TTS
Amazon.com has launched Fire OS 3.0 “Mojito,” a new range of software and services that powers the Kindle Fire tablets, with Android app compatibility. Novelties include.IVONA...
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New Partnership Claims First Real-time Speech Translation for Business
US firm Translate Your World (speech translation software) that converts speech into real-time subtitles in other languages, and Belgium/Netherlands TTS supplier ReadSpeaker are collaborating to create...
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Nuance TTS News App Entertains Mercedes Drivers
Nuance's Dragon Drive gives voice to the Mercedes News App in Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Drivers can listen to articles from a number of different news channels while driving carefully.
View ArticleTextMaster and Transifex Partner to Simplify Website Localisation
France-based TextMaster (translation, proofreading and copywriting services) has partnered with Transifex (cloud-based website localization platform) so that software developers and product managers...
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Nuance Launches Early Access Program for Samsung Developers
Nuance has started an Early Access NDEV program for Samsung mobile app developers. In addition to voice recognition, the program gives developers access to more than 40 languages and 61 voices for...
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TAUS Experiment with Bi-directional Pharma Italian-Greek Statistical Machine...
A report on a set of experiments on domain-specific Statistical MT for Italian->Greek and Greek->Italian language pairs by a PhD student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as a part of...
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TAUS Appoints a New Representative for Europe
The Italian translation professional and commentator Luigi Muzii has been appointed the TAUS represntatuve in Europe. He is tasked with furthering TAUS' mission to support entrepreneurs and principals...
View ArticlePress Agency ANSA Chooses Expert System to Search Photo Captions
Italy-based Expert System says that ANSA (global press agency) has chosen the Cogito semantic technology to improve access in its ANSAFoto image database to captions in English and Italian.
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Textalytics' José Luis Martinez on Semantic APIs
Interview with José Luis Martinez of Textalytics, a brand from Daedalus, a Spanish SME that has been working in the field of natural language processing since 1998.
View ArticleLymba Announces Partnership with CRM Evangelist
Lymba Corporation (NLP and semantic technologies) is signing a strategic partnership with CRM Evangelist to launch PowerAgent for Salesforce starting in the Southeast territory of the United States.
View ArticleLexifone Launches v2 of its Phone-Powered Continuous Conversational Translation
Lexifone (Israel-based automated real-time speech translation) has launched Lexifone 2, a phone service equipped with the ability to translate nearly every major language in real-time continuous speech.
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myLanguage Releases Vocre Translate Free App
myLanguage (US creator of the Vocre translation app) has hit the 100M translations milestone, and is releasing a free version in the iTunes App Store. Vocre Translate Free supports voice-to-text...
View ArticleFrench Telecoms Company to Use Lexifone Translation Service
Lexifone (Israel-based phone translation developer) recently closed a €2M deal with French communication company SFR. SFR has 20 million private subscribers and one million corporate subscribers....
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After 100M+ Android Embeds In 2013, SwiftKey Outs Its 1st iOS App & Tells...
SwiftKey, the word-predicting artificially intelligent keyboard made by a U.K. startup — whose machine-learning software was on more than 100 million devices globally last year (most of them Androids)...
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Google Translate Has Ambitious Goals for Machine Translation
Can the language barrier be breached? Google certainly thinks so: Under the leadership of a computer scientist from Germany, the company is making progress toward a universal translation tool. But...
View ArticleLinux Speech Recognition Using Google Speech API: Google2Ubuntu ~ Web Upd8:...
With Google2Ubuntu you can control your computer using voice commands via the Google speech recognition API. The version 1.1.0 update has been released, adding German, Spanish and Italian support. The...
View ArticleCreaceed Releases 32- and 64-bit iOS Speech Recognition SDK
Creaceed (BE, speech tech) has released a CeedVocal speech recognition SDK for iOS, supporting 32- and 64-bit architectures. Creaceed's CeedVocal SDK supports isolated word recognition from a list of...
View ArticleExpert System Raises $27M in IPO
Italian semantic technology company Expert System has raised over $27M in the company's IPO on Italian stock exchange AIM Italia, the largest in AIM Italia history. Expert System, which has two U.S....
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Fujitsu Ten Develops English-Version of a Smartphone Voice-Recognition Car...
FUJITSU TEN Ltd, the developer of the "ECLIPSE" car navigation brand, has developed a prototype model of the English version of the "Interactive Voice-Recognition Car Navigation Unit" that performs...
View ArticleWolters Kluwer Health Announces Global Launch of Clinical Decision Resource...
Wolters Kluwer Health (information for healthcare professionals) has launched UpToDate Anywhere for healthcare organisations worldwide to provide clinicians with mobile access to its acclaimed clinical...
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