Kites (Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions - kites GmbH) is a world leader in real-time speech translation systems. Founded by renowned AI pioneer Dr. Alex Waibel (Chairman) and Dr. Sebastian Stüker (CEO) – The kites mission is to break down language barriers and make seamless cross language interaction a reality of everyday life. Emerging from Carnegie Mellon and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – where doctors Waibel and Stüker are faculty, kites is amongst a handful of organizations (Google, Microsoft, etc.) with leading and proprietary technology in both speech recognition and translation. The commercial application of the kites real-time translation platform is now live for lecture and government purposes.