The service launched today by Lingtastic.com is initially in only 3 languages. Russian, Spanish and Portuguese (Brazilian) but will be expanded quickly to other languages. The service has also been successfully tested using ideogram based languages like Chinese as well as other non alpha languages like Thai.

This follows closely on last weeks launch of Web to SMS translation where most messages can be sent for under $1 to any SMS capable phone in the World. This includes the cost of translation and the sending of the message through the telecommunications network. However as some languages like Russian and Chinese use more of the available SMS message and can incur greater telecom costs.

Lingtastic.com already provides its users with instant access to a professional live interpreter no matter where in the world they may be. Lingtastic.com provides professional live language interpreters starting from 17 cents a minute compared to the translation industry norm of 150 cents or more a minute. "Just Imagine having an inexpensive interpreter available at the touch of a button to help you out in any country any where in the world. It's a travelers dream come true!" added Chas.

Lingtastic currently has nearly 200 translators online and over 2,000 applicants to work on its service covering 55 languages. Lingtastic receives an average of 30 new applications a day.

Lingtastic LLC (www.lingtastic.com) is a Panama based company that can be contacted via email at press@lingtastic.com.

Lingtastic.com announces the ability to send live translated SMS messages for under one dollar!

Panama, June 11, 2008 , 1:00 P.M. PST.

Lingtastic today announced the ability for its customers to send translated SMS messages from Tuesday June 17th. "From that date our customers will be able to type in a message on our website and have it translated by a professional translator into Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Russian. That message will then be sent received by any SMS capable cell phone in the world in the language requested. The total cost for each message will generally will be under one dollar" Announced Chas Watkins Founder of Lingtastic.com. "We also tested sending translation to other languages like Tagalog and Thai, this morning, and they worked perfectly so we will have all our other languages available very shortly."

With the initial launch most messages will be cost under $1 to send to any SMS capable phone in the world. That includes the cost of translation and the sending of the message through the telecom network. However as some languages such as Russian and Chinese use more of the available SMS message for their character set their telecom costs may be higher to send a message of the same length.

"This is only stage one for Lingtastic." enthused Mr. Watkins we expect to have totally transparent SMS text translation up within the next few months so mobile users can send messages back and forth in their own languages. Each user will be ignorant of the translation process and will just send and receive messages In their own languages.

Lingtastic already provides its users with instant access to a professional live interpreter no matter where in the world they may be. Lingtastic.com provides professional live language interpreters starting from 17 cents a minute compared to the translation industry norm of 150 cents or more a minute. "Just Imagine having an inexpensive interpreter available at the touch of a button to help you out in any country any where in the world. It's a travelers dream come true!" added Chas.

SMS are sent via Gtalk2Voip LLC (www.gtalk2voip.com) is a based in Tyumen, Russia and can be contacted via email at team@gtalk2voip.com.
Lingtastic LLC (www.lingtastic.com) is a Panama based company that can be contacted via email at press@lingtastic.com.

Lingtastic.com announces email translation with prepaid translated replies!

Nevada, June 11, 2008, 1:00 P.M. PST.

From Tuesday the 17th, our customers will be able to send an email from our site and have it translated into the recipient's native language. They will also have the option to pre pay for a reply. This will allow both business users and people making friends around the world the ability to communicate like never before.

In this new offering, from Lingtastic, their professional interpreters will anonymously translate a message before the service sends it on to a specified email recipient. If required, a link will be included in the email that allows the recipient to send a reply and have it translated back to the original customer's language. Our low cost of translation also brings this within reach of the average consumer.

Lingtastic will also be launching its SMS translation service on the same day. This service will allow its customers to send translated SMS messages to anyone in the world and is totally unique.

Lingtastic already provides its users with instant access to a professional live interpreter no matter where in the world they may be. Lingtastic.com provides professional live language interpreters starting from 17 cents a minute compared to the translation industry norm of 150 cents or more a minute. "Just Imagine having an inexpensive interpreter available at the touch of a button to help you out in any country any where in the world. It's a travelers dream come true!" added Chas.

SMS are sent via Gtalk2Voip LLC (www.gtalk2voip.com) is a based in Tyumen, Russia and can be contacted via email at team@gtalk2voip.com.
Lingtastic LLC (www.lingtastic.com) is a Panama based company that can be contacted via email at press@lingtastic.com.

Gtalk2Voip and Lingtastic.com. alliance brings cheap live language interpreters to a mobile phone near you!

Panama, May 16th, 2008, 8:00 A.M. PST 

Gtalk2voip today announced its intent to add cheap live language interpreters to its Talkonaut - mobile VoIP and Instant Messaging chat application. The interpreters will be supplied by Lingtastic.com and this adds over 300K potential worldwide clients to Lingtastic.com translation offerings

Gtalk2voip is a publicly available open VoIP gateway that allows voice communication between users of various Instant Messaging clients (Yahoo, Google Talk etc) and regular mobile or landline phone users. Gtalk2voip currently has 300,000 subscribers world wide and is growing rapidly. It is already the number one IM chat client in Indonesia.

Lingtastic.com already provides live language interpreters via Google Talk and regular phones by using Gtalk2voip services. Today’s agreement will extend that availability in the near future to all mobile users via Gtalk2voip’s Talkonaut software. Talkonaut allows Google Talk like free mobile calling using various mobile phones or PDA’s. Talkonaut users will soon have easy access to professional live language interpreters without any incurred telecom costs.

This is a win win situation for both companies. Chas Watkins the founder of Lingtastic.com explained. It makes our extremely low cost professional interpreters available not only to all of the Gtalk2voip subscribers and will allow future Talkonaut (cell phone) users instant access to a professional live interpreter no matter where in the world they may be. Lingtastic.com provides professional live language interpreters starting from 13 cents a minute compared to the translation industry norm of 150 cents or more a minute. Just Imagine having an inexpensive interpreter available at the touch of a button to help you out in any country any where in the world. "It’s a travelers dream come true!" added Chas.

Talkonaut is a mobile free calling application for mobile phones explained Ruslan Zalata, Gtalk2Voip’s CEO, Talkonaut supports Jabber, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN , AIM, and Yahoo networks both for chatting and voice calling.  By adding the Lingtastic service our Talkonaut users will be simply able to access Lingtastic’s interpreters without any telecom connection costs by using our VoIP solution. Talkonaut is used extensively outside the USA being extremely popular in India, Arabic Countries and many Asian countries with a subscriber base that is growing daily.

Gtalk2Voip LLC (www.gtalk2voip.com) is a based in Tyumen, Russia and can be contacted via email at team@gtalk2voip.com.
Lingtastic LLC (www.lingtastic.com) is a Panama based company that can be contacted via email at press@lingtastic.com.

Lingtastic provides low cost interpreting to the world

Nevada, April 18, 2008, 12:00 P.M. PST. 

Chas Watkins, founder of Lingtastic, LLC announced today that Lingtastic is now in live beta.  Lingtastic is the first site on the web to offer live interpretation via a revolutionary new web technology.  Customers of Lingtastic may now use a live interpreter to aid them in their work or play by using Google Talk, Skype, cell phones, or any phone number in the world.  Using www.lingtastic.com customers may connect with a live interpreter within minutes.

Lingtastic smashes the price barrier for live interpretations allowing interpreters to set their own prices and customers to choose from a range of interpreters via skills, specialties, and price levels. Lingtastic will have prices starting at $11.00 an hour compared to industry standard prices of above $90 an hour.

The interpreter’s skill sets are rigorously tested by a team of experts.  The majority of the interpreters are experienced professionals, some with more than 20 years experience.  Throughout the closed beta Lingtastic received more than 800 applicants representing 44 languages.  Lingtastic anticipates that most of the applicants will be tested and online within the next few weeks. Currently the service has over 80 graded interpreters in Spanish/English as well as interpreters offering help in languages from Albanian to Swahili.
 
Lingtastic is an automated referral service that facilitates connection to interpreters through web based communications such as Google Talk, Skype, and ordinary telephone numbers.  The company sees itself as a service provider delivering its linguistic services by as many communication methods as possible. In the near future Lingtastic will also be offering low cost text translation for SMS messaging and emails.

For additional information and to sign up as a customer or interpreter please visit the company’s website at www.lingtastic.com.  Patent pending December 2006.

Founder Background

Chas Watkins, the founder of Lingtastic, has had a twenty year career in various senior IT roles. He was the number four employee in Scient a company that epitomized the dot com era. Most recently he was involved in a joint partnership that developed CosmetiSoft medical software for the cosmetic surgery market. He sold his interests in 2006 to a renowned EMR software firm. All requests for interviews and further information can be directed to press@lingtastic.com