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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Audiantis Releases Mobile Text Translation With Speech Output
Audiantis releases text translation with speech output for mobile Internet free of charge for the duration of the world cup.
The Berlin company Audiantis is offering the beta version of its combined translation and speech output service iSound TranSpeaker free of charge for the duration of the world cup. This enables e.g. an English speaker to input a request or an order into his mobile device, immediately receiving the German translation as speech output. Equally, he can input an unfamiliar German text – from a newspaper or from a signpost – receiving the speech output in
English.
In the slimmed down version 0.8 provided the languages German and English in both translation combinations, each with one speaking voice, are available. The complete process, from the translation to the speech generation, is carried out on the server side, with the speech data immediately transmitted to the mobile end device per audio stream. The whole procedure takes less than 4 seconds per translation and is accompanied by background music. The service can be accessed under www.transpeaker.net, requiring either a PDA or Smartphone with the operating system Windows CE or Windows Mobile 2003/ 2005 and a web browser. No additional plugins are required. According to Audiantis the service doesn’t require a high bandwidth. “GPRS is more than sufficient”, reassures CTO Hardy Krause, announcing the release of a commercial service to follow the beta version, supporting further mobile operating systems and with additional languages and voices.
About Audiantis GmbH
The company was founded in Berlin in 2001, receiving extensive funding from the tbg Technologie Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, the IBB Investitionsbank Berlin and the European Union. In 2004 the international patent was granted for the streaming procedure and Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg from the Fraunhofer Institute, the inventor of MP3, was won as partner and investor for the company which now has a staff of 12. He provides support to the founder Dr. Reginald Gruenenberg (42, CEO) and Hardy Krause (37, CTO). In 2005 the first steps were taken in entering the most dynamic market for Internet technology worldwide: Japan.
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