Business | Lernout & Hauspie
Translation errors
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EUROPE is not so rich in software success stories that it can shrug off a disaster such as that gripping Lernout & Hauspie (L&H), a pioneer of speech-recognition and machine translation technology. The company, based in Belgium, has suffered a wave of indignities from which it will struggle to recover.
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