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27th February 2009 - International workshop on Spoken Language Technology for Development - Call for Participation |
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Outside Echo is hosting SLT4D-09 - an international workshop on Spoken Language Technology for Development - from 10-12 September 2009, in the UK. This follows on from a successful special session at SLT2008 in Goa, India. The aim of the workshop is to develop a "best practice in developing and deploying speech systems\technology for developmental applications". See the workshop webpages for details on how to particpate.
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29th April 2008 - NAFIS launched in Kenya |
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The Assistant Minister for Agriculture, Hon. Japhet Kareke Mbiuki, the Swedish Ambassador to Kenya, Ms Anna Brandt and Githunguri MP, Hon. Njoroge Baiya joined LLSTI partner Dr Mucemi Gakuru at the Githunguri Stadium for the launch of the National Farmers Information Service (NAFIS). NAFIS is primarily a voice information service for providing agricultural extension information through telephony. It can be accessed through calling +254-20-47NAFIS (i.e. +254-20-4762347) but is also accessible through the Web. NAFIS uses Kiswahili and Kenyan English TTS commercialised by Teknobyte, and can be continually updated through the web by field extension officers. NAFIS offers information on crops and livestock as well as product information, including market prices.
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30th March 2007 - New Morphology Project |
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Dr Ksenia Shalonova has joined Prof Peter Flach at the Univeristy of Bristol, UK, for a 3-year project applying machine learning techniques to the morphological analysis of languages with complex recursive structures and a lot of ambiguities (mainly African, Asian and East European languages). The project will focus on Turkish, Russian and isiZulu (a Bantu language predominantly spoken in South-Africa) as example languages.
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