ECTACO Inc. (East-Coast Trading American Company Incorporated) is a US-based developer and manufacturer of hardware and software products for speech recognition and electronic translation.

The speech recognition system developed by ECTACO allowed troops as well as other US governmental institutions to communicate with non-English-speaking communities, especially in conflict regions.

[4] ECTACO was founded in autumn of 1989 in New York, USA, by David Lubinitsky, who was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Russian- and Polish-speaking immigrants in the USA became the primary commercial target group for the products of the company.

Within the next 2 years offices were opened in Germany (Berlin), Great Britain (London), the Czech Republic (Prague), Canada (Toronto), Poland (Warsaw) and Ukraine (Kiev).