Facebook announced that it has acquired Mobile Technologies,a leading speech recognition company.
Facebook product manager Tom Stocky announced the acquisition via Facebook.He said, “I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire Mobile Technologies, a company with an amazing team that’s behind some of the world’s leading speech recognition and machine translation technology.
Mobile Technologies said on its website, “Facebook, with its mission to make the world more open and connected, provides the perfect platform to apply our technology at a truly global scale.
Once the deal has closed many team members from MobileTechnologies will be joining the Facebook at their headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Mobile Technologies was founded in 2001.Mobile Technologies has developed a number of cross-lingual communication tools – Jibbigo, the world’s first speech-to-speech translator on a phone.Mobile Technologies also developed and deployed the first automatic, simultaneous interpretation service for lectures.
