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To: David Fortner who wrote (11753)	6/20/1998 1:52:00 AM
From: Derrick Lim Kok Fang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13925

Back to Creaf, Singapore Business Times, 20/6/98: Creative Technology yesterday launched the latest version of its Chinese software program, HansVision Future 2000, which it hopes will set a de facto standard in China and other Asian countries. The multimedia company has also tied up with Singapore's education ministry to use the software in all Singapore schools by July. Creative hopes to sell "thousands" of copies of this software in the next year, although officials declined to reveal a specific target. "What's more important is that we want to set a de facto standard for Chinese bilingual software," said Low Chee Seng,vice-president for Creative's Asia-Pacific operations. He said the earlier version of the HansVision product, first introduced in China two years ago, is now among China's top five retail software products. Creative plans to also promote the product in China's schools. It also intends to launch the product in Taiwan and Hongkong. The product's features include the ability to translate English, Japanese and Korean text -- including Internet text -- into Chinese, in either simplified and original Chinese characters. Creative officials said the software had an accuracy level of 70-80 per cent when translating primary or secondary texts; 60-70 per cent when translating text from The Straits Times; and 20-30 per when translating legal documents. Text from the Lianhe Zaobao scanned into the computer can be read by the software's optical character recognition technology with up to 98 per cent accuracy.