Breaking the Language Barrier

Linguatec awarded the European IT Prize 2004

The competition for the European Information Technology Prize is organized by the European Commission together with Euro CASE, the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering. Of the 420 entrants from 28 European countries, 20 companies were awarded the coveted prize.

After being awarded the prize in 1996 (automatic translation) and 1998 (applied speech recognition), Linguatec was able to take the coveted award back to Munich again in 2004. Linguatec is the only company to have already received the European IT Prize three times.

Linguatec received the prize for Beyond Babel, a new kind of software solution. In an age of globalization, Beyond Babel enables fast and efficient communication beyond language frontiers.

Beyond Babel is an intuitive and user-friendly solution, which enables people to communicate with one another in their respective mother tongue.

The following latest technologies are integrated in the application:

Speech recognition
Machine translation
Speech synthesis
Active noise suppression using a digital signal processor
Audio compression in real time

Beyond Babel supports the following languages:
English, French and German (Chinese currently in development)

News

11 Dec 2008
Wishing you a Merry Christmas!

It is that time of the year again: Christmas is almost here!

And to get you into the right holiday spirit, we have prepared some special Linguatec Christmas greetings for you. Enjoy, and remember to relax!

11 Dec 2008
LEO now with Voice Reader!

The famous Online Dictionary LEO has now upgraded its comprehensive dictionary services with an interactive language coach using our Voice Reader! You can listen to reading exercises, translations and dictated texts in the language of the respective text. The pronunciation function is available for all languages offered by LEO.
We congratulate LEO on their choice of the groundbreaking service and hope that all users will enjoy learning languages with LEO!

30 Oct 2008
Voice Reader Web – now with music!

The new version of Voice Reader Web offers website visitors the possibility to listen to the text accompanied by background music!

This is how it works: In the popup window with the player, click on the button with the musical note. In the menu that is then displayed, you can set music genre, volume etc. All according to your mood, you can choose from relaxing or rhythmical sounds. Try it out on the left side of this page!

23 Oct 2008
A feather in the cap for the Linguatec website

Each year, the renowned Web-Adressbuch für Deutschland, a printed directory of German web addresses, presents the most important websites each year. Naturally, Linguatec is one of them, with its free online services, the Personal Translator Demo, the Voice Reader Demo and the online dictionary LinguaDict, as well as comprehensive information about language technology.
We feel honoured by the inclusion, and are delighted that you may benefit from our efforts!

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