I was quite surprised and very interested to read this post by TechCrunch... http://bit.ly/13xaKb.

From a technical perspective this is quite a development in the world of voice recognition and marries it well with translation. It's actually a very cool set up that potentially takes us one step closer to a more networked world.

But on a more sinister and cynical level its interesting that Sakhr has some of the US Government Departments as clientele... this suggests that wire-tapping in the Middle East or of Arabs in the US will take on new meaning (literally)...