DGAP-News: ROK Global PLC : ROK's 'BabelBar' multi-language social media and website text-to-speech translation service now compatible with Internet Explorer
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ROK Global PLC : ROK's 'BabelBar' multi-language social media and
website text-to-speech translation service now compatible with
Internet Explorer
28.01.2013 / 08:00
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ROK's 'BabelBar' multi-language social media and website text-to-speech
translation service now compatible with Internet Explorer
BabelBar, ROK's highly innovative multi-language text-to-speech translation
toolbar, now compatible with Internet Explorer along with Chrome, Firefox
and Safari internet browsers, is designed to overcome the inherent language
barriers of social media networking and the internet as a whole.
28th January 2012
Ticker Symbol: RKG
WKN: A0YKFS
ROK Global PLC, the mobile, web and industrial technology, applications and
services company, has announced its 'BabelBar' service, which enables
universal multi-language audio and text translation of website content, is
now compatible with Internet Explorer and is available to download free of
charge from www.babelbar.com.
BabelBar, an amalgam of 'Babel' - defined as 'noisy confusion' - and 'bar'
because the application is a browser-based toolbar, currently provides a 20
language text and audio translation service to include English, Spanish,
French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian,
Finnish, Dutch, Czech, Polish, Greek, Turkish and Korean.
Babelbar is free to download and free to use and will be funded through
advertising in due course.
Commenting, Paolo Fidanza, CEO of ROK said 'Babelbar has proven popular
with Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox users because the internet as a
whole is not universally accessible and usable - and neither are individual
websites - due to inherent language barriers. Now, with Babelbar compatible
with Internet Explorer, the ability to have the text on any website,
anywhere in the world, read aloud to the visitor and to be translated in
subtitles, in their own language, is a hugely compelling and exciting
development.'
BabelBar, developed by ROK to understand many of the popular social media
abbreviations in use, is able to understand and translate such words as
'LOL' and 'ROFL' and many of the most-used 'emocions'.
BabelBar will be promoted by ROK to technology-focused user groups around
the world to encourage a virally-driven mass adoption of the service.
'While we know BabelBar is a very cool and fun application, there are
further and more practical benefits of BabelBar which include an increase
in the accessibility and usability of the internet to those with visual
impairments and those with severe dyslexia as well as serving an
educational purpose for those learning a second language.' Added Fidanza.
ROK Global PLC was co-founded by US Billionaire John Paul DeJoria and
UK-based entrepreneur Jonathan Kendrick. In addition to being the
co-founder of ROK, John Paul DeJoria is Chairman of John Paul Mitchell
Systems, the manufacturer of Paul Mitchell hair care products as well as
being the co-founder of Patron Tequila, the world's leading premium tequila
brand.
ROK has pioneered a portfolio of new technologies and services including
high quality mass-market Mobile TV which can be streamed, live and
on-demand, over mass-market 2.5G GPRS as well as 3G and Wi-Fi, several
mobile security technologies which it licenses to law enforcement agencies
and a suite of cutting-edge industrial technology products.
More information:
www.rokglobal.com
www.babelbar.com
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