GlobalTV's maker, MultiLingual Media, will announce its first major customer before Dec. 1, Silverman said.

CNN: Speech tech comes to TV, handhelds

GlobalTV uses machine translation of the closed captioning text to produce subtitles in Spanish, French, German, English, Portuguese or Italian.

CNN: Speech tech comes to TV, handhelds

GlobalTV, a new product for international cable and satellite TV operators, allows near-instantaneous translation of English-language programming, said Larry Silverman, the company's chief executive officer, in an interview with IDG News Service Wednesday.

CNN: Speech tech comes to TV, handhelds