BBN is awarded $13 million for language project
BBN Technologies said today that it has been awarded $13 million in additional Defense Department funding for an ongoing project that looks to help US intelligence analysts by rapidly processing information in foreign languages.
BBN is a Cambridge company that developed much of the early technology for the Internet. The funding is from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, and it is for a project called GALE, which stands for Global Autonomous Language Exploitation.
GALE's goal, BBN said, is to develop and apply software technologies to transcribe speech and translate both speech and text in multiple languages with better than 90 percent accuracy.
"Such a capability would help US analysts recognize critical information in foreign languages quickly," BBN said in a statement.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)
