A light source produces a pump wave that is used to pump a parametric device. The apparatus includes an arm, a fold-away handle attached to a first end of the arm, and a crank wheel attached to a second end of the arm. The multilingual mappings used together with a branched grammar decoding scheme is able to capture both inter- and intra-language pronunciation variations which is ideal for multilingual speaker independent recognition systems. The constructs are bound to the data and nodes and access is provided to the assets to a user using a computer and display.