Users Can Now Access Instant Machine Translation Via The Device's Camera

NEW YORK, August 31, 2010 - TransPerfect, the world's largest privately held provider of translation services, today announced the release of a new iPhone application for translation, which is free to users.  The application is called TransPerfect TransImage and it provides real-time machine translation via the device's camera for users who come across text they would like to instantly understand. Machine translation has not yet advanced to a point where it can replace a human translator for mission critical content, but it can be fun, informative, and useful for getting the gist of content in another language.

TransPerfect's iPhone application leverages OCR (optical character recognition) and MT (machine translation) technology to form an easy-to-use application that takes text within a picture and translates it automatically. The current version includes support for 49 languages. 

The free application is now available from the Apple iTunes Store here:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/transperfect-transimage/id380198095?mt=8

About TransPerfect
With revenue of over $250 million, TransPerfect is the largest privately held language services provider in the world. From offices in 66 cities on 5 continents, TransPerfect offers a full range of services in over 100 languages to multinationals worldwide. With a global network of over 4,000 linguists and subject-area specialists, TransPerfect is the largest translation company to be fully ISO 9001:2008 and EN 15038:2006 certified. TransPerfect is headquartered in New York and has regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit our website at www.transperfect.com.