Interlecta™, a world leader in translation and messaging technologies, presents its upgraded translation software featuring Text-to-Speech and Image Translation capabilities.

Interlecta™ Translator for BlackBerry® provides a truly powerful tool you for translating text, SMS and email. We have now incorporated extras such as translating text from an image and TTS, which provides voice playback of translation pronounced by a native speaker. Unrivaled speed of translation and the highest levels of translation accuracy make the Interlecta Translator an indispensable mobile communication tool.
With this Industry-leading translation accuracy on BlackBerry devices, users can translate typed text, incoming and outgoing SMS and emails directly on the device screen. Interlecta offers a rapidly growing list of over 36 languages to translate to and from your device. Translation accuracy is further enhanced by selecting specialized topic dialogue dictionaries such as Computers, Business, Law, Medicine etc.

In addition to Interlecta's text, SMS and email translation, upgraded innovations such as Image Translation, employing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, and Speech Translation utilizing Text-To-Speech (TTS) have been incorporated..

The Image Translation functionality allows users to take pictures of printed text with their BlackBerry camera, recognize and extract the text from the photo, and then translate it into a language of their choice.

The Text-to-Speech feature allows the server-side generation of speech that is then sent back to the user's mobile device and pronounced clearly in the voice of a native speaker of the language.

The actual translation is executed in sub second resp onse time on our remote and powerful servers. The resulting thin client on the users device makes for a highly accurate, very light multilingual communication tool one can carry in their pocket anytime, anywhere.

Today some 70% of Internet and mobile users do not speak English as a native language. This poses a huge communication problem! Frustration ranging from corporate Globalization to personal travel plans mounts when a significant proportion of the resources available are in a language one does not understand. Language barriers are however much less of an issue with Interlecta's portable translation suite – fast, reliable, available and user-friendly. Everyone can enjoy the freedom of unrestricted communication. Now.

Connecting quickly and effectively with foreign business partners or employees, service subscribers and friends is now a feasible task thanks to Interlecta™. Messaging and translation expertise at ones fingertips enables spirited enterprise global communication, teamwork and collaboration across multilingual borders.

Interlecta's translation application comes with an extendable library of languages, with new ones being added on a regular basis. These include the world's most frequently used Latin European languages, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese as well as rare ones such as Pushtu, Tagalog, Somali, Urdu etc.

About Interlecta™
Established in 2007 by a seasoned development team with extensive experience in machine translation and messaging, Interlecta is based in Bulgaria and employs a dynamic team of coding and linguistic professionals from one of the country's most renowned universities, the St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo. The company develops messaging and translation solutions for mobile devices covering all platforms including: RIM BlackBerry, J2ME, iPhone and Android operating systems.

As a full-service MT development enterprise, Interlecta’s markets include travel, hospitality, trade, customer service, virtual team management and social networking worldwide. The company's innovative technology incorporates modular concepts and allows effortless integration applicable to various domains.

Over the past year, Interlecta™ has been awarded the TOP INNOVATOR position at the Mobile Innovation Global Awards at the GSMA Mobile Innovation Contest in Barcelona and was selected as first Runner Up in the 2008 Nokia “Mobile Rules” Enterprise Application Contest. Recent participation as an alliance partner in the RIM® booth at the 2009 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona allowed us to present our most recent accuracy and ease of use upgrades to the Interlecta Translation Server product suite.