Tod first became interested in Bible translation during his final year at Talbot Theological Seminary (1986). During that year he took a class about Bible translation, and learned about the millions of people who don’t have God’s Word in a language they can understand.
Being a software engineer, he began developing a computer program to help missionaries who are translating the Bible into other languages.
After graduating from Talbot, he studied linguistics and completed a Master of Arts in Linguistics (1989). Tod then spent approximately 20 years developing the Bible translation software.
He then went back and completed a Doctorate in Linguistics (2010) in order to further refine the translation system. Tod is currently involved in enhancing the software, developing the semantic representations that are used when translating the biblical books into other languages, and also in assisting missionaries who want to translate large portions of the Bible into other languages.
email: Tod_Allman@AlltheWord.org