Acapela TTS Lets Users Personalize Android Phones
The Acapela TTS Voices app offers 400 million Android users the opportunity to add a pleasant voice to speech-empower their Google Play apps. Voices are available in 26 languages, all are available...
View Article21 European Languages in Danger of Digital Extinction says META-NET Report
21 European Languages are unlikely to survive in the digital age, says the study “Europe’s Languages in the Digital Age” carried out by META-NET, a European network of...
View ArticleABBYY Launches Lingvo Dictionaries 3.0 with New Language Learning Tool
ABBYY, a provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, has announced the availability of Lingvo Dictionaries 3.0 for iOS, a versatile dictionary and...
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NTT DoCoMo Preps Automatic Translation from Japanese through Android
NTT DoCoMo's Hanashite Hon'yaku automatic translation service for Android 2.2 phones or tablets will automatically convert spoken Japanese to another language, and reverse the process for the reply,...
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Atooma Is a Mobile App-making Toolkit for the Crowd
The Italian product Atooma is an Android app which is in itself like carrying around a mobile toolkit to create your own mini-apps – but without needing any coding skills. It lets you set up...
View ArticleVoice Reader Text-to-Speech 2.5 for iOS: 32 Voices and 21 Languages
Munich-based Linguatec Language Technologies has released Voice Reader Text-to-Speech 2.5 for iOS, an update of their productivity app that reads entered text, text files, and PDF files...
View ArticleTopSoft Announces New OCR-Capable Document Camera
TopSoft, an image processing and OCR supplier, has released the 5.0 MP SnapVision Document Camera. This optical scanner and OCR software package is ideal for scanning and maintaining digital copies of...
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A Semantic Take on the 2012 Presidential Debates
The Italian firm Expert Systems used its Cogito semantic engine to analyze the transcript of this week’s US presidential debatedebate through a semantic and linguistic lens. Cogito extracted the...
View ArticleOxford English Dictionary to Use Crowdsourcing for Finding Historical Examples
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announced the launch of OED Appeals, a major online initiative set to involve the public in tracing the history of English words. Using a dedicated community space...
View ArticleGoogle Updates its Lexicographical Ngram Viewer
Since 2010, the Google Books Ngram Viewer has been used about 50 times every minute to explore how phrases have been used in books spanning the centuries, creating over 45 million graphs. Google Books...
View ArticleJibbigo Launches Free Translator App
Mobile Technologies, developers of the Jibbigo speech-to-speech foreign language translation app, has launched an all-in-one speech translation tool for travelers. Jibbigo Translator is a free...
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Motorola HC1 Headset Computer with Voice Recognition and Gesture Control
Motorola Solutions has released its own head-mounted wearable computer based on a Golden-i headset. Aimed at industrial and military users who need to keep their hands free on the job while viewing...
View ArticleADmantX Attends Venture Camp 2012 in Milan
ADmantX, the next-generation contextual analysis and semantic data provider, today announced its participation in Mind the Bridge Venture Camp 2012, held in Milan, Corriere della Sera,...
View ArticleDesti, a Virtual Personal Assistant for Travel, Launches on iPad
Desti, a free mobile app launching in beta today, wants to combine natural language search with artificial intelligence technology to make the travel and vacation planning easier. Desti is a startup...
View Article'Voice Travel Mate': the World's First Patented Travel Translation Companion...
Hong Kong-based startup Voice Link Technologies Limited has released Voice Travel Mate - ts (world's first patented) travel translation iPhone and iPad app. It works offline,...
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TextMaster Raises €1.64M To Crowdsource Translation, Copywriting &...
France-based TextMaster, the crowdsourced platform for content translation, copywriting, and proofreading, has raised its first funding round: €1.64 million from the French VC fund, Alven Capital, and...
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YouTube Expands Captioning for Six New Languages
YouTube is expanding support for its automatic captioning service for six European languages. The company said that its service will now display captions in German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian...
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Fantastical Converts Words into iPhone Calendar Entries
Fantastical for iPhone from Flexibits gives you the ability to type in events in plain English (or French, German, Italian or Spanish), like 'go to the thing at 6 on Thursday,' and have the app...
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Google's Knowledge Graph Now in Seven New Languages
Starting today, the Knowledge Graph is now available in seven new languages. Over the next few days, users will find it available in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and Italian....
View ArticleSYSTRAN Launches SYSTRANLinks, Simplifies website localization
SYSTRAN has released SYSTRANLinks, an online service which makes website translation faster, easier and more cost-effective than current solutions. SYSTRANLinks is now live and available for use by...
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