Globalization Insider

In this issue…

Globalization Technology Will Prevail • Pierre Cadieux, i18N Inc.
Director’s letter (premium) • Michael Anobile
Time For a Change (premium) • Jaap van der Meer, ALPNET & LISA Supervisory Committee
Back into the LEIT • Sue Ellen Wright (Kent State University), Erika Walker (University of Washington), Arle Lommel (LISA) & Alison Rowles (SMP Marketing Sarl)
Money Talks (premium) • John Freivalds, JFA Inc.
LISA Profiles: Jochen Hummel
INDUSTRY RESPONSE: Walk about in the Graveyard (premium) • Michel Balcaen, WizArt
INDUSTRY RESPONSE: The Globalization Services Industry—Running in Place? (premium) • Donald J. Plumley, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Bowne Global Solutions
Designing Cross-Cultural Speech Applications (premium) • José Elizondo, Peter Crimmin and Paul Greiner, Speechworks International, Inc.
Content Management and Localization (premium) • Otto de Graff, Tridion
Globalizing Painlessly with Automated Content Enrichment (premium) • Marc Bookman, CEO, Sentius Corporation
How Unicode is Conquering the World (premium) • François Yergeau, Director, Technology, Alis Technologies Inc.
Is there a Universal Creole for Localization Efforts? (premium) • Marilyn Mason and Jeffrey Allen, Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd. (MIT2)

Money Talks

John Freivalds, JFA Inc.

You would think that investor interest in language technologies would have subsided with the financial developments at Lernout and Hauspie (LHSP). However, it seems the latest development in portable gadgets, that can translate language as fast as you speak, are almost ready to emerge from the lab. An economic opportunity seems to present itself. The June 5th Washington Post reported that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had released guidelines that require most doctors to provide interpreters for patients with limited ability to communicate in English.

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