Sogou Provides AI-powered Machine Simultaneous Translation at China Open Tennis Championship

BEIJING, Oct. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sogou Inc. (NYSE: SOGO) ("Sogou" or "the Company"), an innovator in search and a leader in China's internet industry, today announced that the Company's AI-powered machine simultaneous interpretation technology was successfully used to provide bilingual interpretation in Chinese and English during interviews and press conferences at the China Open Tennis Championship ("China Open"), held September 29-October 7, 2018, in Beijing. This marks the first time that AI-powered automatic translation played a key role in an international sports event, helping all participants to better communicate and get real-time information.

Xiaochuan Wang, Chief Executive Officer of Sogou, said, "We're excited and honored to support the China Open with our AI translation technology. By enabling bilingual translation in real-time, instead of relying on consecutive translation or media coverage, reporters and tennis fans got first-hand information and enjoyed a better experience at this major international sports tournament."

Mr. Wang added, "Sogou has made significant progress in exploring and applying natural language processing and AI to machine translation. Our promising results in this field were further demonstrated this year with the launch of several AI-powered translation devices, including the Sogou Translator Pro, the Sogou Smart Travel Translator and the Sogou Smart Recording Translator, which aim to connect people from different countries and create a world free of multi-language communication barriers." 

As the world's first commercially applied machine simultaneous interpretation system, Sogou's machine simultaneous interpretation technology has supported hundreds of high-level domestic and international conferences since its launch in 2016, such as the 4th World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China and RISE 2018 tech summit held in Hong Kong. 

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Sogou Inc. (NYSE: SOGO) is an innovator in search and a leader in China's internet industry. With a mission to make it easy to communicate and get information, Sogou has grown to become the second largest search engine by mobile queries and the fourth largest internet company by MAU in China. Sogou has a wide range of innovative products and services including the Sogou Input Method, which is the largest Chinese language input software for both mobile and PC. Sogou is also at the forefront of AI development and has made significant breakthroughs in voice and image technologies, machine translation, and Q&A, which have been successfully integrated into our products and services.

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