Bravice International, venture capital-backed software house specialising in machine translation systems, is to begin exporting its software: it has signed a licence agreement with ITCC of Toronto, Canada for sales in North America of its Personal Computer-based Japanese-to-English Micropack J/E system, which runs on an XT or AT, and works at between 1,000 and 2,000 words per hour; about 20 language dictionaries are available, including medical, chemical and electrical.