Tag: tech
Semifinalists and Testing Cities Announced in $7M Adult Literacy XPRIZE
XPRIZE, the global leader in designing and operating world-changing incentive competitions, has announced...
Raytheon Deploys Translation Software, Aids U.S. Army
Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded $4 million to provide automatic speech recognition, machine translation, text-to-speech, and optical character-recognition software licenses for one year...
Indian Bilinguals Humanizing Virtual Assistants
To improve the functionality of Cortana, its voice-powered virtual assistant, Microsoft is turning...
Teaching Tools
To coincide with this month’s annual conference of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), here is a selection of some of the...
Competition Launches Arabic Literacy Apps for War-Affected Syrian Children
Antura and the Letters and Feed the Monster, the two winners of the EduApp4Syria innovation competition, were announced today and then released worldwide as...
Apple’s Siri Learns Shanghainese in Ongoing Race to Dominate Voice-Assist
Last week we saw the release of Google Assistant, an electronic assistant that...
Lone Stars
To celebrate Language Magazine’s partnership with the TCEA (Texas Computer
Education Association) at its annual convention in Austin this month, here is a
selection...
Messaging App for Language Learners
“Tandem” is a relatively new language-learning app where language learners can chat with each other in order to improve their language skills. Users can...
Adopt an Emoji, Save a Language
The Unicode Consortium, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing the computing industry standard for digital writing systems, is allowing people to adopt an emoji or any Unicode...
Wearable ASL Translation Technology
Roozbeh Jafari, Associate Professor for the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University is leading the development of a tool for American Sign Language (ASL)...
