Russian mashine translation engine sent to the orbit with NASA astronauts

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Russian PROMT Company completed an agreement with NASA about the use of its system machine translation by the International Space Station. The leader of the machine translation industry announced that PROMT translation engine was sent to the orbit with NASA astronauts.

Recent research results demonstrated that astronauts often have to deal with multilingual translation, because NASA tightly cooperates with international programs, especially the Russian Federal Space Agency and astronauts, so a necessity of special software to provide Russian-English and English-Russian translations was pronounced.

PROMT Professional 7.0 System will be installed on the personal computers of the astronauts, and Pocket PROMT 4.0 – on their pocket-PCs. Both programs will be specially provided with all necessary technical vocabularies on different technical topics that will improve the level of specialized texts translation.

The installation PROMT on ISS conducted by official partners of PROMT, PROMT Solutions, is a unique event in the history of machine translation systems, noted PROMT representatives.