I'd like to add a set of technologies involving language to the list
before this thread is entirely cold: translators, text-to-speech (TTS),
and speech-to-text (STT). In societies of the global South that are
multilingual, and have strong oral traditions and low literacy rates,
these technologies
Related to this question:
1. What specific elements does a policy environment need in order to
encourage the private sector to expand access to poor, isolated,
underserved areas? Where do such policies exist?
I just came across the latest issue of Telematics and Informatics
On Monday, December 1, 2003, Robert Miller wrote:
Simon Woodside wrote:
WorldSpace is a broadcast system. With a WorldSpace system you are
only capable of receiving data, not sending it.
I wish to disagree in that we are currently using WorldSpace very
effectively as a global multicast
Pat Hall wrote:
...is there something else going on here - perhaps the language policies
of Nigeria have led to the education system favouring English?
In response to Pat, Europeans carved up Africa without seriously
integrating the polarizational issue of tribe and hence culture. Let us
not
