This is a SIM-card and J2ME based advertising platform which offers translation services to roaming cellphone users.

Mobile users submit their translation request, using a multitude of available source languages (with VR front-end where commercially available). Their translation requests are parsed by a SYSTRAN translation server; the resulting translated content is processed by multilingual speech synthesis modules.

The produced sound waveforms are enveloped in MMS messages which are sent to the user's cellphone. The translation request is parsed for user location and content; a corresponding visual advertising message is wrapped in GIF format, embedded in the response MMS. The translated content can also reach the cellphone in textual or written phoneme format. This application is a mobile 'talking' multilingual phrasal translation server / online dictionary, which doubles as a value oriented advertising medium, aimed at roaming cellphone users.

Check the listed whitepapers ! The work has been exhibited at the CER 2005 event in Brussels Belgium - Nov. 14-15 2005 (Heysel exhibition center), demonstrating the concept of integrating mobile with language engineering and machine translation technologies.

Heysel Exhibition Centre Brussels