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2. Accessing information by voice
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tucker, Roger (author) and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-12
- Published:
- Kenya
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26822
- Journal Title:
- ICT Update
- Journal Title Details:
- 40
- Notes:
- 4 pages., Describes a text-to-speech system being used by the Banana Information Line, Kenya, to provide information to farmers.
3. Hitting the right tone
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Adegbola, Tunde (author) and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-12
- Published:
- Nigeria
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26825
- Journal Title:
- ICT Update
- Journal Title Details:
- 40
- Notes:
- 3 pages., "The traditional Yoruba 'talking drums' of Nigeria provided inspiration for a unique approach to speech recognition technology."
4. Localizing languages
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Osborn, Don (author) and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-12
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26823
- Journal Title:
- ICT Update
- Journal Title Details:
- 40
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Describes the linguistic complexities in Africa (e.g., more than 2,000 languages) and the Bisharat initiative in Mali to help focus attention on use of African languages in ICT projects, with emphasis on localization.
5. Reviving a language
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Corbett, Jon (author), Kulchyski, Tim (author), Hukari, Tom (author), and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-12
- Published:
- Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26824
- Journal Title:
- ICT Update
- Journal Title Details:
- 40
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Describes a Canadian initiative for using new information technologies to aid the survival of an endangered language spoken in a number of rural communities on southern Vancouver Island.