> 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.
>
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