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MOBILE MULTILINGUAL OCR, TRANSLATION AND LANGUAGE LEARNING

2009.8.20, 19:00-21:00 Pacific (August 20, 2009, 7:00 to 9:00 PM)

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EVENT DETAILS:

Date: August 20, 2009, 7-9 PM

Topic: Mobile Multilingual OCR, Translation and Language Learning

Speaker: Rick Pierson, ABBYY

Location: Apple, 1 Infinite Loop, Singapore Conference Room. Please see the map links above.

ABBYY is a leading provider of document conversion, data capture and linguistic software. The key areas of ABBYY's research and development include document recognition technologies and applied linguistics. In this presentation, we will get a chance to see ABBYY's latest mobile technology at work.

FotoTranslate takes a picture of a sentence or small paragraph, then allows you highlight a word and get a side-by-side dictionary definition in two languages. Currently English, German, French, Spanish and Russian are supported. FotoTranslate is not yet in public release, but was demonstrated at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year and will launch on the Symbian platform soon.

Lingvo x3 Mobile, a dictionary and language tutor application, offers offer a convenient way to learn a new languages. Whenever you have a few minutes of downtime, you can practice a new language! Lingvo x3 Mobile is available in multilingual versions offering various combinations of English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian and other languages, within eight possible language interfaces: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian. Lingvo x3 Mobile is currently available for Windows Mobile and Symbian handsets.

Snap & Translate was created by an ABBYY customer. Led by OCR pioneer, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, KNFB developed this application using ABBYY technology to take a picture of any printed text - such as menus, signs, placards, and even books - and translate it on your smartphone. Snap & Translate supports 20 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish and Russian, and currently works on Symbian handsets. The application is available for sale on the Nokia OVI store.

Rick Pierson is Director of Business Development for ABBYY's Mobility Group. Rick has more than 20 years of experience in establishing and maintaining top dollar accounts for leading communications technology companies. As director of business development for ABBYY, Rick helps create and further expand licensing deals for ABBYY development tools and mobile applications with mobile phone OEMs and application developers. Prior to ABBYY, Rick served as director of business development for mobility and gaming at Immersion Corp. While there, Rick facilitated business deals with industry leaders in the Global 1000 including Microsoft, Logitech, LG and Nokia. His extensive executive management background also includes positions with AT&T Labs (GeoSphere) and ipVerse.

Location/Directions:

Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino - Singapore Conference Room

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Take the Saratoga/Sunnyvale Rd. [De Anza Blvd.] exit off 280, turn south into Cupertino, go one block and turn left onto Mariani Avenue, then take another left into 1 Infinite Loop.

An IMUG volunteer will be at the front door to escort you in and direct you to the correct room (usually the Singapore Room).

Admission: $4 - FREE for all IMUG members.

IMUG meets on the third Thursday of each month, usually on the Apple campus in Cupertino, CA. Each meeting features at least one speaker of interest to the multilingual computing community. Past topics include software development, language translation, international business and more. Visit the archives to learn more.

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