![]() ![]() Sakhr’s long-standing expertise in the field attracted the attention of BBN Technologies, which incorporated the technology into its work on the U.S. ![]() ![]() It benefits from nearly twenty years invested by Sakhr in building a knowledge base of Arabic phrases to support optical character recognition (OCR), machine translation (MT), data mining and search. Offering the function as a Smartphone app is a real coup. Mobile translation of this sort is something akin to the Holy Grail of natural language voice processing. This YouTube video provides a demonstration. One of the early fruits of the partnership is an application for the Apple iPhone and RIM Blackberry that performs real time translation between spoken English and Arabic. Dial Directions’ CEO Adeeb Shanaa will have the same title at Sakhr, while the cheif executive of Sakhr, Fahad Al Sharekh, is elevated to chairman of the combined company, with the objective of building more business alliances and partnerships. The resulting company will have 200 employees. There’s an interesting endgame to the Dial Directions story, as the pioneering voice search company announced today that it has been acquired by Sakhr Software, a company that specializes in natural language processing in Arabic. ![]()
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