Comments on: Kamusi: The Semantic Search Engine of African Languages http://appfrica.net/blog/lu/2008/07/02/kamusi-the-semantic-search-engine-of-african-languages/ Ideas, Development, Data and Design Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:00:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Advances in Computational Linguistics - Appfrica http://appfrica.net/blog/lu/2008/07/02/kamusi-the-semantic-search-engine-of-african-languages/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Advances in Computational Linguistics - Appfrica Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:29:38 +0000 http://appfrica.net/blog/lu/?p=82#comment-86 [...] profiled the Kamusi Project last week but failed to mention that they recently met with the developers of another ‘living [...] [...] profiled the Kamusi Project last week but failed to mention that they recently met with the developers of another ‘living [...]

]]> By: Edward Mokurai Cherlin http://appfrica.net/blog/lu/2008/07/02/kamusi-the-semantic-search-engine-of-african-languages/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Edward Mokurai Cherlin Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:42:43 +0000 http://appfrica.net/blog/lu/?p=82#comment-80 One Laptop Per Child is integrating a text-to-speech engine into all of its software that deals with text, both as an accessibility technology for the blind and visually impaired, and as a literacy program for adults and children. See http://www.olpcnews.com/content/ebooks/effective_adult_literacy_program.html. Any language community is welcome to join in to create the dictionary and recorded sound samples to support their own language. Earth Treasury has embarked on a program to combine electricity generation and Internet for the poorest and most remote villages with education and microfinance. We think that this is the fastest way to get a local economy moving, with money, access to markets and information, and know-how combined. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mokurai/Earth Treasury. One Laptop Per Child is integrating a text-to-speech engine into all of its software that deals with text, both as an accessibility technology for the blind and visually impaired, and as a literacy program for adults and children. See http://www.olpcnews.com/content/ebooks/effective_adult_literacy_program.html. Any language community is welcome to join in to create the dictionary and recorded sound samples to support their own language.

Earth Treasury has embarked on a program to combine electricity generation and Internet for the poorest and most remote villages with education and microfinance. We think that this is the fastest way to get a local economy moving, with money, access to markets and information, and know-how combined. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mokurai/Earth Treasury.

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