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Apptek's patent-pending Hybrid Machine Translation and it’s Olin College of Engineering Student Contest  have been featured in Multilingual News Magazine on March 15, 2009. http://www.multilingual.com/mlNewsArchiveDetail.php?id=2439#6761

AppTek, a developer of software for human language technology, has completed its hybrid machine translation (HMT) system for both Windows server and 32-bit Windows for PC. AppTek's TranSphere HMT system is a full integration of statistical and rule-based methodologies.

AppTek also released the results of its joint contest with the Olin College of Engineering to explore the use of AppTek's core technology — which includes a set of tools for language identification, translation and text-to-speech services in a variety of languages — to develop a prototype Android application for the Google G1 Phone. All teams licensed their final code entries under the Open Source Initiative Approved Simplified BSD License.

ABOUT APPTEK

AppTek, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, is a developer of human language technology products with a complete suite for text and speech (voice) processing and recognition.  The Company also leads major research and development efforts to further the advancement in the field of developing better methods and technologies in the field of HLT.  AppTek's product offerings include machine translation (MT) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) for a growing list of more than 23 languages; multilingual information retrieval with query and topic search capabilities; name-finding applications; and integrated suites providing automatic speech recognition and machine translation in media monitoring of broadcast and telephony speech as well as handheld and wearable speech-to-speech translation devices.  The company has language professionals and computer scientists in offices around the world. For more information visit: www.apptek.com.   

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