SAIC Aims to Change Language Services Landscape with Hybrid Chat Translation Solution

Increasing globalization is driving a burgeoning demand on the language services market, which, according to statistics, is expected to reach $31.4 billion this year alone and is growing by a rapid rate of 7.4 percent annually. In response to this ever-growing need for language service providers and users of translation services to operate more efficiently, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC (News - Alert)) has unveiled the industry's first-ever machine chat translation solution. Designed to enable tailored and adaptive contextual translation, this new integrated offering is meant for anyone that has to interact with another individual who speaks the same language or a different language, SAIC shared with TMC at the recent SpeechTEK (News - Alert) 2011 in New York City, where SAIC debuted the solution. "We've brought a single platform that does both text and speech and combined it with hybrid machine translation," Hassan Sawaf, chief scientist for SAIC, told TMC (News - Alert) during an interview at SpeechTEK. "It's highly customizable, tailorable and secure since it can reside on servers within a firewall." According to a press release, organizations using the machine translation technology will decrease the need for costly human translation, thus resulting in lower costs for businesses and boosted productivity for translation providers.