Apps for Everyone on Palm(R) Pre(TM) Plus and Palm Pixi(TM) Plus Feb 26, 2010
Customers can translate 45 languages super fast with the tap of a button using Google translation services. After the translation is complete, customers can send it directly to contacts via e-mail or message. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Stimulus funds boost research in Georgia Feb 14, 2010
Gerhardt said he has not spent any of the money yet but that it will eventually cover the cost of his trips to Denmark and Norway, translation services and the positions of two undergraduate research assistants. Researchers at Emory University are using stimulus funds for a project to help understand post-traumatic stress disorder through tests on monkeys. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Google Leaps Language Barrier With Translator Phone Feb 9, 2010
We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years time, said Franz Och, Google s head of translation services. Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition, and that s what we re working on. (Datamation)
Let cellphone be the interpreter as you speak Feb 8, 2010
"We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years time," said Franz Och, Googles head of translation services. Although automatic text translators are now reasonably effective, voice recognition has proved more challenging. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Travel Guard offers aid after Haiti quake Jan 15, 2010
Services available through Travel Guard include coordination of emergency medical arrangements and evacuations, temporary lodging, cash wire transfers, passport replacement, translation services, message relay, emergency travel arrangements, and luggage tracking for items lost during the quake. Travel Guard is also coordinating with its network of medical and evacuation specialists and air ambulance providers to monitor evacuation and assistance needs and facilitate evacuations from the area. (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
School teaches many tongues Jan 15, 2010
Elisa Galloway, president and owner of locally based marketing research firm Galloway Research, says Worldwide Languages has provided her firm with on-site translation services for at least 15 years. Galloway says Worldwide Languages interpreters are able to translate even the emotion behind the words but also do a very good job of remaining objective. (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
