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RDI
leadership and innovation in
the CIT
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“(Realizing
leadership and
innovation in the
CIT world through an
economically
successful
corporation, that
provides outstanding
products & services
seeking for the
development of the
society) may well
express the mission
that RDI carries
from its birth up
till now” Said Prof.
Mohsen Rashwan;
C.E.O of the
company.
“Over 13 years of
serious work has
brought this mission
to reality via
continuous research
and development in
the field of spoken
& written Human
Languages
Engineering in close
ties with the
Egyptian academia,
which resulted in
building an
integrated arsenal
of large-scale
Arabic language
processing tools and
resources. Lexical
analyzer, semantic
analyzer, automatic
phonetic
transcriptor,
Text-to-Speech
synthesizer, and
speech verification
are just a few items
to name from those
technologies
provided today from
RDI.” Continued
Prof. Rashwan.
Prof. Rashwan added
“From the 1st day to
date, we’ve also
realized the supreme
importance of
deploying these
technologies in mass
applications vital
to the public esp.
e-Learning,
edutainment, and
cultural multimedia
of which RDI has not
only become a
pioneer but also a
market leader in
Egypt and the Arab
region.”
“RDI has acquired
international
recognition due to
both its successful
participations over
the years in
multinational
language
technologies
projects like
Orientel
www.Orietel.org and
NEMLAR
www.NEMLAR.org, as
well as the prizes
it has been awarded
for its distinctive
works like; Best of
GITEX 1996; for the
(by then) novel
technology of Speech
Compression, Best
Multimedia Title on
Jerusalem from
PC-Magazine (Middle
East); 2000, Best 3D
Animation in the 8th
Egyptian Festival of
Radio & Television,
2002, E-Content
Award-second prize
in the E-Science
track from the
Egyptian IT Industry
Development Agency
(ITIDA) for RDI ’s
Virtual Labs
application; 2005,
…” RDI ’s Planning &
Strategies Manager;
Mr. Ashraf Assafty
explained.
Mr. Assafty added
“Today, backed with
that history,
technical assets,
and a powerful
clients list
comprising IBM,
Microsoft,
ELDA/ELRA, BBN,
Babel Tech., Acapela
group, Kuwaiti
Ministry of
Endowment, Egyptian
MCIT, .., and many
others, RDI is
really in a good
position to
participate in
elevating the actual
CIT impact on the
everyday life of the
people in this area
of the world.”
“The most recent
member of RDI ’s
family of
technologies is
being proudly
presented in GITEX
2006, and is majorly
aiming to be an
effective assistant
in the auto learning
of spoken language.
Hafss® which has
proved effective in
helping people learn
Tajweed of the holy
Qur’an is also
helpful in learning
spoken Arabic.
Moreover, RDI is
negotiating with
other European
parties about
adapting it to help
in learning skoken
European language.”
Mr. Assafty
declared.
“After its first
apparition in GITEX
2004, Hafss® proved
itself in a large
project of Qur’an
web encyclopedia.
The challenging
feature about Hafss®
is that it can
detect and fully
diagnose the faults
– if any – in the
learner’s utterance
of given examples.
This closes the
feedback loop
without which the
learning process can
never be completed.”
Explained Eng.
Ibrahim Sobh; RDI ’s
S/W Engineering
manager.
RDI senior staff
concluded “We all
hope to put both
legs of RDI in the
newly forming world
of CIT where success
is determined by how
natural can our
software interact
with its users.
Nothing is more
natural to humans
than language which
is our specialty as
well as our
passion.” |
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