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Hi Neal, I believe basic literacy in Mandarin means knowing 500 - 1,000 characters of the 10's of thousands. Victoria On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:21 PM, D. Neal McDonald <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I'm particularly interested in the affects on speech and language that > come > > about through various ways of working with voice recognition software - > and > > think this was particularly pertinent, Victoria - > > > The US government has done radio broadcasts in "Basic English" (I've also > heard it called "Simple English"), which contains only 890 words. > > http://ogden.basic-english.org/rules.html > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English > > Are there basic Spanish/German/French/Chinese? Because that would be a fun > bunch of data to munge. > > N > > > > GH - On your comments regarding *Toast - *Text-to-speech is so little > used > > because it still hasn't been perfected to work smoothly. I like your > > comment about the user altering his behavior to conform to how the > > translation works, learning the tool and finding out what works and what > > doesn't - the machine and the user would be creating their own language > > that finds a middle ground of functionality/understanding. I would like > to > > try this with the device, though I realize that the language that is > > created is going to be totally customized to the person using it. > > > -- > Neal McDonald > workly.com > [log in to unmask] > -- // Victoria Bradbury <PROJECTS> www.victoriabradbury.com Researcher @ www.crumbweb.org New Media Caucus <http://www.newmediacaucus.org> <CommComm> Attaya Projects <http://attayaprojects.com> // Collaborator