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Technology, Speech and Language
A recent article ‘Natural language processing: is this the end of the written word?’ on TechRadar trumpets the latest developments in the ability of smartphones to process search queries t...
READ MORE | 5 Aug 2014
Digital tools 'to save languages'
Digital technology often gets accused of accelerating the rise of English at the expense of other languages, but according to a piece on the BBC Technology pages, the internet could be the salvation o...
READ MORE | 20 Feb 2012
Googling the ghosts of Montparnasse cemetery
With Halloween just round the corner what could be more appropriate than this fun piece from the BBC's Radio 4 From Our Correspondent on some of the illustrious graves of Paris's Montparnasse cemetery...
READ MORE | 28 Oct 2011
The Talking Kitchen That Teaches You French
Wonderful video on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's YouTube Page of a new experiment at Newcastle University that gives lessons in cooking and French at the same time. Cou...
READ MORE | 25 Oct 2011
¡Increíble! Google Turns Your Android Phone Into An On-The-Fly Conversation Interpreter
A recent article on Techcrunch looks at the future of interpreting courtesy of Google Translate. The latest version of Google Translate for Android comes with a new feature: Conversation Mode. T...
READ MORE | 10 Feb 2011
The Future of Language Learning?
Laud help us--Can this really be the future of language learning? This application perhaps has its place, but surely learning a language is all about the journey rather than the arrival?...
READ MORE | 20 Feb 2010
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