Linguasys Packages Machine Translation for “Mobile Chat Rooms” on Android-based Phones

GigaOm’s Mobilize Conference is certainly the epicenter of mobile services today, but this press release out of Boca Raton caught our attention because it combines two of the hottest areas in the mobile world: multi-user conferencing and machine translation. Under the brand TransGen Mobile, the company enables chat-based conferencing in multiple languages involving as many as 500 participants using Android-based mobile devices and handsets.

We first described Linguasys and its offering in this post in June. The new TransGen Mobile offering provides an app that is downloadable from the Android Marketplace. At core, the application can perform machine translation for the phone’s owners, when not in “Chat Mode”. By switching to Chat Mode, subscribers will be able to carry out text-based chat with as many as 500 other users. LinguaSys also markets a “high-end”, enterprise version of the services host to reside inside a company’s firewall.

Given the level and geographic distribution of traffic into the Opusresearch.net Web site surrounding the term “machine translation”, we are observing heightened level of interest in the topic that may coincide with lower degrees of skepticism.