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over 1,800 news stories for you in the last 12 months. Everyone will have their own best-of list. Here’s a selection of our innovation highlights:
- Event of the Year The first automatic simultaneous subtitle translation of a public lecture from German to English in Karlsruhe. Together with the news that Brussels Airport police use Skype for interpreter services. Online interpretation, unified communications, e-learning, BYOD, and digital value-add.
- Old Idea, New Format. The wunderkind Summly news summariser app finally launched in Silicon Valley to much acclaim. Even though Connexor’s Summarizer App is already available. And French newcomer, the low-profile Mining Essentials launched its own one-click multilingual summarizer earlier in the year.
- Translation Innovation. TAUS released its translation services API to simplify access to translation data . SDL opened a new European R&D centre. And Lingo24 announced a new MT development centre.
- Speech Technology Echoh, the UK speech recognition and related services supplier, probably had the best year with a number of major new contracts CereProc was disruptive, while Acapela and IVONA competed strongly. Novauris started the year well, but then went quiet.
- Diversification prize of the year goes to SDL for its new data and sentiment analysis business especially during the US elections and for its social media listening services for SMEs.
- Virtual Assistants. European companies dominated Gartner’s list of top IVA suppliers, with Inbenta, Ikanos, Indisys, Artificial Solutions, CreativeVirtual, Argus Labs, Synthetix, Sparkling Apps and Evi.
- Among the M&As, Lingway was snapped up by Eptica, WoltersKluwer Health acquired Health Language, semafora took over the defunct Ontoprise’s semantic products, Kwaga acquired Boxcar, Royal Philips Electronics sold its speech processing business to an Austrian private equity fund, and Pearson and Bertelsmann joined forces in digital content publishing Policy agendas.
- The UK planned to modify copyright law for non-commercial data mining .META-NET released its cri de coeur about digital language extinction in Europe Brand new LT Start-ups included Capito Systems (speech), Reverbeo (translation), and Syllabs (automatic content generation).
- Prize-winners Q-Sensei and Acrolinx won awards for their products or were given best-in-class industry status. Across Language’s Server won an SME innovation prize, and SwiftKey (from TouchType) a Global Mobile Award. Estonia starred as Europe’s top start-up nation.
- Semantic search engines on hold? South African Gatfol semantic search engine launch never happened nor did the UK Sehrch But Volunia is still up and running.
Happy New Year for 2013 with LT-Innovate!
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