One of the biggest stories to hit the localization industry this year was the IBM-Lionbridge deal which granted Lionbridge exclusive rights to offer Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based, text-to-text language automation solutions to commercial clients based on IBM’s Real Time Translation Service (RTTS) technology. You can read my first blog post about it here.
Since that dramatic announcement was made, Lionbridge has not provided the general public with much information on how they are planning to use this new technology. And in other industry news, SDL’s purchase of Language Weaver has cast a shadow on the Lionbridge deal.
But I did manage to find a wealth of information on IBM RTTS from the IBM website. This blog post will tell you some of the details I found: continue reading…
