Category Archive for 'News'

Vancouver’s Olympic Games to be Bilingual

Posted in News on Dec 28th, 2009

Thanks to New Brunswick that is. New Brunswick’s Government announced earlier this month that they will help with the translation from English into French of all the Vancouver 2010 Games documents. They pledged $60,000 to a non-profit group, Sport New Brunswick, to provide with the translation.
One would think that Quebec would have been a more [...]

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Toshiba Develops a Trilingual Translation System for Mobile Phones

Posted in News on Dec 28th, 2009

A story from PC World announces that Toshiba has developed a cell phone version of their PC translation system which translate between Chinese, English and Japanese.
The software uses a speech recognition method that uses one of two systems: statistical machine translation or rule-based machine translation. According to the article, tests provided fairly good results, although [...]

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