Speech-translation computer nominated for prize

by Rick Perera

November 23, 2001 —

A simultaneous-translation computer that can be accessed via mobile phone to interpret business conversations between different languages has been nominated for a prestigious German technology prize.

The system, called Verbmobil, was developed by a team of scientists led by Wolfgang Wahlster at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Deutsches Forschungszentrum f

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