CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon BBN
Technologies has been awarded $4
million to provide automatic speech recognition, machine
translation, text-to-speech, and optical character recognition
software licenses for one year to the Army's Machine Foreign
Language Translation System Program Office. This is the first large
scale fielding of the system.
With Machine Foreign Language Translation System, U.S. Army
personnel can converse with Iraqi Arabic and Pashto speakers and
understand foreign language documents and digital media on three
platforms:
- an Android handheld,
- a Windows laptop, and server-based systems,
- a major intelligence system used at the battalion level.
"Our military needs to converse with foreign language speakers
and understand the situation around them," said Martha Lillie, Machine Foreign Language
Translation System program manager at Raytheon BBN Technologies.
"Giving them the tools to converse fluently, exchange information
and understand printed material helps them accomplish their
missions."
The U.S. Army began the MFLTS program in 2011 to provide
language translation capabilities at the point of need across all
Army echelons in all environments.
Raytheon BBN Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Raytheon Company.
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