1. PDA Applications for the Olympic Games

2. Consolidated collaborations GET & Tsinghua University: –(Prof. Ding Xiaoqing) LingTour Chinese character recognition Biometrics –(Prof. Mao Yuhang) Tr@nscultur@ Speaking French-Chinese dictionary (Le Robert) Multilingual dictionary IMAG/GETA & LIAMA: –10 hour corpus of interpreted, tourism-oriented French-Chinese dialogues –Studies on “pivot-based” speech-to-speech machine translation (e.g. using UNL and the IF of CSTAR-II / NESPOLE!)

3. Our Current Projects and Proposals LingTour → LingTrans Marco Polo Mobile Broadcast

4. LingTour → LingTrans Linguistic and communication aids to facilitate the transportation of foreign visitors Services: City maps and databases Multilingual communication support, including Chinese OCR and translation Tourism and commerce (hotels and restaurants, sightseeing, conference centers, offices, …) Telephone over IP (wireless) Technology: Zoomable multimodal interface (gesture and voice, intelligent camera, cultural agents)

5. Mobile Interactive Broadcasting A breakthrough in international events communication Access to a range of Wireless TV channels News on special events, schedules, last olympic or world records, … Access to the programme and broadcasts of each olympic facility Travel information and maps to the olympic facilities Works on PDA, smartphones, and PC laptops using wireless IP connectivity

6. Marco Polo automated and/or human assisted instant translation of spoken sentences for travelers International airport please International airport place Record a sentence in your own language and send it to the translation service through wireless IP Get the text back in the source and target languages Play the translation with the voice synthesizer Ask for human assistance when needed Embedded wireless voice- over-IP telephony

7. Summary Working prototypes available Proven technology Actively seeking industrial partners for the development of commercial products Contacts Gérard Chollet gerard.chollet@enst.fr Philippe Hervier philippe.hervier@peer2phone.com ZHUANG Zixin zhuangzx@capinfo.com.cn