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August 2003

ELRA provides new Spanish and Italian resources

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) has added four new items to its catalog of language resources.

	ELRA-S0147, Italian Speech Corpus 1, contains the recordings of 202 native Italian speakers recorded in an office and a closed public place, over four channels, in a range of low to medium background noise environments.
	ELRA-S0148, Italian TTS Speech Corpus, contains the recordings of one native Italian speaker recorded in a studio over one channel.
	ELRA-S0149, Spanish Speech Corpus 1, contains the recordings of 200 native Spanish speakers recorded in an office and a closed public place, over four channels, in a range of low to medium background noise environments.
	ELRA-S0150, Spanish TTS Speech Corpus, contains the recordings of one native Spanish speaker recorded in a studio over one channel.

ArchiText successfully localise Click to Meet Express

ArchiText Inc, a leading provider of translation, software localisation, globalisation, and content development services, announced today the successful completion of a localisation project with First Virtual Communications (Nasdaq: FVCXD), a premier provider of rich media web conferencing and communications solutions. ArchiText translated Click to Meet(tm) Express into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Click to Meet(tm) Express is a multipoint audio, video, and data collaboration tool for IP networks. Because the application works in demanding environments such as enterprise, government, and service-provider applications, ArchiText also performed extensive linguistic software testing on the localised versions. First Virtual Communications' Director of Program Management, Moshe Kogos, said, "ArchiText was able to take a difficult project and turn it around in a very tight schedule. The pain we experienced with other localisation companies was completely alleviated by ArchiText's expertise and professionalism. They are now First Virtual Communications' first choice for all future localisation work."

SDL concludes agreement with CNH

SDL, a provider of multilingual solutions offering scalable translation technology and services, has completed a substantial new software and services contract with CNH, a manufacturer of agricultural tractors and combine harvesters. The contract involves SDLWorkFlow and SDL's translation memory and machine translation systems, not to mention the translation of tens of millions of words.

CNH will deploy SDL's WorkFlow technology and translation services in support of its technical information and support system, ASIST. ASIST is a 24/7, Web-enabled warehouse of expert technical knowledge and is available throughout CNH's 24-country operations and its network of 12,400 dealers and distributors in over 160 countries. The SDLWorkFlow installation encompasses a full Knowledge Based Translation System, incorporating translation memory and terminology management as well as real-time translation capabilities.

Network version released by PROMT

PROMT, a provider of machine translation technologies, has released its network translation solution @promt NET Professional which permits companies to communicate with their partners, customers and employees aroudn the world. The solution employs client-server architecture and is part of the @promt translation software family which is based on the PROMT XT (eXcellent Translation, XT) machine translation technology.

The network solution provides translation for English to/from Spanish, English to/from German, English to/from Russian, French to/from Russian, and German to/from Russian.