Press Release

July 23, 2009

Interlecta Translator Now Available on BlackBerry App World

Bulgaria - The Interlecta™ development team is excited to announce that its mobile translation application is now available for free on BlackBerry App World™. BlackBerry® smartphone users can now enjoy the freedom of unrestricted translation no matter where they are.

The Interlecta™ Translator application for BlackBerry smartphones mobilises a comprehensive set of translation tools that were previously only available on a desktop application. The innovative application provides:

  • high accuracy translation of the text from one language to another on the BlackBerry smartphone’s display;
  • fast translation of logically linked sentences, not just separate words or phrases;
  • translation of incoming SMS and email messages and the ability to send translated text as a SMS or email;
  • user-friendly interface and seamless integration with the BlackBerry smartphone menu options to provide immediate access to the translation tool;
  • extensible suite of over 30 languages to translate to and from;
  • further enhancement of translation accuracy by selecting specialized topic dictionaries.

With the Interlecta™ Translator application for BlackBerry smartphones, translating incoming and outgoing SMS and emails is child's play – Interlecta’s goal is to develop applications that facilitate communication and have usefulness as their primary objective.

Interlecta’s Managing Director in Bulgaria, Neven Boyanov, commented: “We put great effort into creating applications with compelling user value. We work towards achieving enhanced real-time multilingual communication and collaboration between friends, partners and clients across the Internet landscape and throughout the world.

“We have developed key translation solutions that can be used for work or for personal use, which provide improved responsiveness and efficiency to users when communicating with foreign contacts – be they personal or business related. Interlecta is currently developing extra features that will soon to be incorporated into the mobile application, such as translating text from an image and pronunciation of the translated text in the voice of a native speaker.”

Connecting quickly and effectively with foreign business partners or employees, service subscribers and friends is now simple thanks to Interlecta’s™ application for BlackBerry smartphones. Just install Interlecta™ Translator and take your BlackBerry® smartphone with you!

Interlecta’s co-founder and Managing Director in the U.S., Frank Fleming, added: “Interlecta™ provides solutions that integrate with key business processes and associated systems that touch customers, from marketing and sales to contracts and order management, to customer support and service. Interlecta™ delivers a truly unified communication structure that improves visibility, control, and efficiency while making it easy for global departments to centralize work that crosses multiple lines of business and regions. Language barriers are now much less of an issue with Interlecta's portable translation suite – lightweight, fast, reliable, suitable and user-friendly.”

The Interlecta™ Translator is a truly powerful application that enables people to use translation services that seamlessly integrate with the functionality of their BlackBerry smartphone – text, SMS, email and voice.

Currently the Interlecta™ Translator application works with the BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphone and the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8900 smartphone, and versions of the application will soon be available for other BlackBerry smartphone models.

The Interlecta™ Translator application can be downloaded on BlackBerry App World: http://www.blackberry.com/appworld

About Interlecta™
Interlecta™ is a web services infrastructure company specializing in real-time Machine Translation /MT/ and Messaging Services.

Established in 2007 by a seasoned development team with serious background and great authority in the field of machine translation and messaging, Interlecta™ is based in Bulgaria and employs a dynamic team of young, skilled software engineers and linguistic professionals from one of the country's most renowned universities, the St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo. The company develops messaging and translation solutions for mobile devices covering all platforms including: the BlackBerry® platform, J2ME, Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Android operating systems.

As a full-service MT development enterprise, Interlecta’s markets include travel, hospitality, trade, customer service, virtual team management and social networking worldwide.

Interlecta™ provides the industry leading messaging translation service with high-performance interactive solutions. With an intuitive interface and higher levels of translation accuracy Interlecta™'s services enhance the interaction between different cultures and organizations speaking different languages. At the same time the Interlecta™'s application features can be utilized for building seamless global business plans with increased levels of collaboration at low level costs and a quantifiable ROI. From the initial project definition to end-user training and support, Interlecta™ can assist in turning a local or regional marketing strategy into a global one.

Over the past year, Interlecta™ has been awarded the TOP INNOVATOR position at the Mobile Innovation Global Awards at the GSMA Mobile Innovation Contest in Barcelona and was selected as first Runner Up in the 2008 Nokia “Mobile Rules” Enterprise Application Contest.

For more information about Interlecta™ see http://www.interlecta.com and http://home.interlecta.com/mobile.

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