Since its inception in 1990, AppTek has developed a number of linguistic technologies and software solutions to help bridge the language gap. Building on its core Machine Translation and Speech Recognition technology platforms, the company has created a wide range of products and services that can empower users who need to process information in a variety of languages or to communicate with the world.   

                                                                                            

Machine Translation for the Sphere

TranSphere^® 

TranSphere® - AppTek’s highly ranked Machine Translation (MT) solution, provides translation of text in any format including Microsoft Office documents and files. Fully automated content translation reduces translation complexity and translation costs. Increases translation speed through automation, enable web services for foreign markets and has a high degree of integration with third party applications.

                                                                                            

Web Translation and Localization

WebTrans™  

The AppTek WebTrans™ product provides a web-based interface for machine translation that can also be used for translating WebPages, allowing dynamic online access to web content while maintaining website format integrity. It enables E-commerce and website localization, online news monitoring, and access to Machine Translation anywhere a web browser is available.

                                                                                            

Automatic Speech Recognition for Dictation, Broadcast, and Telephony

PlainSpeech  

PlainSpeech enables Speech Recognition for Dictation, Broadcast and Telephony. The system provides fast and reliable recognition of continuous speech, user-specified speaker-dependent or speaker-independent recognition, Gender-independent speech recognition, scalable vocabulary, scalable number of recognized languages, grammar and speech models to improve speed and quality, dialogue guiding with dynamic database interface.

The Challenge of Undertanding Spoken Language

SpeechTrans™   

SpeechTrans™- Allows for real-time dynamic speech-to-speech machine translation, real-time bi-directional telephony conversation translation,  and dictation.  The dynamic and flexible engines can be deployed on computers, wearable devices, and telephony servers.

                                                                                            

Automated Media Monitoring 

MediaSphere™  

MediaSphere™- A turnkey solution for indexing multilingual video, audio, and telephony. It integrates Speech Recognition, Machine Translation, Name-Entity ID, and Multilingual Information Retrieval to provide a complete solution for automated media montiroing and processing of television, radio and web-based content.

                                                                                            

Integrated Translation Memory Sofware

MemorySphere™   

MemorySphere™ -Translation Memory software for improvement of translation accuracy and consistency, shortening translation turnaround time, cost and time reduction of content updates, greater globalization efficiency, improved MT performance, and elimination of redundancy.

                                                                                             

Proper Noun Identification System 

NameFinder™   

NameFinder™- Advanced technology engine with automated extraction of  proper nouns such as human names, countries, companies, etc., in various languages, higher efficiency and accuracy in identifying misspelled proper nouns and names, ability to identify the ethnic and language origin of nouns and names.  

                                                                                             

Solving the Problem of Traditional Approaches to Name Matching

NameSphere™    

NameSphere™ - Solves the problem of traditional approaches to name matching. This product matches variant spellings and transliterations of names, generates a list of variations of a name, eliminates unwanted low-quality spelling variants and normalizes name spelling both in native and Roman.

                                                                                             

Multiligual Information Retrieval 

Text Finder™   

Text Finder™- Solution for native-language keyword searches against foreign content.  Content data extraction, thematic clustering, name/event search, managing information and knowledge, query translation, access to multilingual information, high degree of integration with third party applications.  

                                                                                             

Information Linguistic Enabling of Document Management Systems 

PlainKnowledge    

Linguistic Enabling of Document Management Systems. In the area of Knowledge Management AppTek offers several software modules, under the collective name PlainKnowledge. The individual modules are grouping, classification, summarization, content specific extraction, language recognition of a text and associative search. 

                                                                                             

PlainTranslate Statistical Machine Translation 

PlainTranslate   

PlainTranslate- Functional user friendly interface uses statistical technology to translate individual words, complete HTML pages, and other documents. Integrated interactive process that allows the user to make corrections which the system learns, allowing for improvement of quality translation. PLAINtranslate offers Unicode support and is language independent. Can be optimized to specific customer needs. 

                                                                                             

Simultaneous Machine Translation

PlainBabel   

PlainBabel- Is a dialogue driven speech-to-speech translation system that allows for a bilingual natural dialogue between two parties that don’t speak each other’s language. The system can be used with different types of output devices from an ISDN telephone to a 3G mobile phone. It combines intelligent individual modules for speech recognition, translation and synthesis.  

                                                                                             

Two-way Free Speech Translation

Ambassador™  

Ambassador™- Is a two-way free speech translation device, ruggedized for all-weather use in hostile environments.  It is a wearable or handheld, battery operated device with a user friendly design that includes, strategically placed speakers and microphones, audio jacks, USB, and Bluetooth support. Language pairs include: English with → Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), Iraqi Dialect, Egyptian Dialect, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Chinese.    

                                                                                             

IVR Platform for Medium and Large-scale Applications

VoxSphere  

VoxSphere is an advanced IVR platform for speech-based applications. It provides the capability to integrate computer telephony interfaces with automated speech applications, which can be used for sales, payment processing, services, data collections, inquiry processing, customer support and various call center activities.   

                                                                                             

Voice Message Transcription to e-mail and SMS 

Vmail2Email   

Voice2Email allows you to read your voicemail by converting it to text as soon as it arrives.   

                                                                                             

Receive e-mail over Telephone, Text Pager or SMS

Email Reader      

The AppTek Email Reader is application/service which allows anyone with an email account to receive their email over a telephone, text pager or SMS enabled digital cell phone.

                                                                                             

Fully Integrated Arabic, Farsi, Pashtu Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Machine Translation 

TranSphere OCR™   

Powered by NovoDynamics OCR and AppTek’s Machine Translation engines this software is fully integrated for document recognition and translation.  Coverage of languages includes: Arabic, Persian/Farsi/Dari and Pashto.

                                                                                             

Other Linguistic Tools   

AppTek utilizes its own proprietary CASE tool for machine translation development, allowing rapid development of new language pairs. It has also developed the following modules…