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Last updated: November
7, 2003
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The central international event for LT Applications and the place where industry meets science. The European Forum
for Speech and Language Technology (24+25 Nov.)
. . . Microsoft Research - Asia The Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Beijing will focus on further developing innovations produced in the lab. The mission of Microsoft Research - Asia is to drive the state of the art forward in areas such as graphics and multimedia, wireless and networking, user interface, and information processing. Our researchers strive to impact their respective fields externally by publishing peer-reviewed papers at leading conferences and collaborating with academic, corporate and government research organizations. [...] [More
LISA to announce Newly Appointed Advisory Board. The Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA)'s elected Supervisory Committee -- LISA's Strategic Director Bill Sullivan, Program Director for Globalization at IBM and LISA's Financial Director John Egan, VP of Production Solutions at TRADOS, in conjunction with Mike Anobile, LISA's Managing Director -- to restructure the association over the past three years. |
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Weaver (SMTS) to announce strategic investment and contract from
In-Q-Tel. IBM
to boost Support for Semantic Web. Network
Inference to expand its presence in the Enterprise Software Segment
for the Semantic Web. Alias-i
goes Open Source with LingPipe Naturally Language Processing Tools. LingoWare,
new Localization Software, now available. Nuance
to win prestigious Awards for Advanced Speech Solutions and Industry
Leadership. Nationwide
Insurance's Web Site Awarded Top Honors for Ease of Use and Customer
Confidence. US
Airways Federal Credit Union to enhance Telephone Lending System
with Maxxar SR Technology. Fonix
and Seiko Epson Offer Speech Solution on Powerful Processor Chips. |
ClubDeaf.com
to launch Online Community. SlovoEd
Dictionaries support new Try&Buy concept introduced by Nokia. Microsoft
launches Voice Control for Mobiles. First
Microsoft Xbox Games with Fonix Speech now available. Voice
Control in Use at New Hampshire Police Department. Convenient
Banking at RBC Royal Bank with Digital Imaging and Interactive
Voice Response. NSC's
Speech Recognition Engine Now Supports the Arabic Language. Babel
releases Arabic Language Version of BrightSpeech. Software
that Bugfixes itself?. Spam
Wars: Filters that Strike Back. Textbook
to query Videos. U.S.
to install Biometric Screens at Airports and Seaports. |
Future Market for Speech Control will open up in Robotics. More and more people are turning to robots to do their household chores, such as mowing lawns and vacuuming carpets, according to a survey. Demand for robots jumped by a unprecedented 26% in the first half of 2003 from a year ago, said the annual World Robotics Survey released on Tuesday. While industrial robots continue to dominate the market, sales in domestic robots saw the biggest rises. In 2002, sales of "domestic robots" - mostly self-piloting lawnmowers and window-cleaners - rose to 33,000 up from 20,000 the previous year, said the UN Economic Commission for Europe and the International Federation of Robotics. The total number of robots in use worldwide stands at around 1.4 million, it added. Orders for new factory robots rose 35% in North America and were up 25% in Europe - in both cases mostly for use in the auto industry. The global robot market shrunk by 12% in 2002, the study said, adding the new figures indicated that "a strong recovery is in sight". The report found that Japan still remains the world's most robotized economy, and is home to around half the 770,000 robots working in factories around the world. |
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