Fluential gets $1.2M defense contract for Arabic translation software

“The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $1.2 million contract to Fluential Inc. for a two-way speech translation technology, the company said. Sunnyvale-based Fluential said the contract calls for technology for English-Arabic to be used by service members in Iraq. Fluential said it received the contract under DARPA’s Spoken Language Communication and Translation System for Tactical Use, which is focused on finding technologies that enable spontaneous two-way tactical speech communications between English and “target-language speakers.”