Talk:Improving translation tools for MediaWiki   

[edit] Initiatives to Watch

[edit] Meraka Institute's Human Language Technologies (HLT) research

By mid 2009 they will have some useful tools in addition to Dictionary Maker, ....

Their focus is on southern African but the tools may be adapted for languages elsewhere.

Alongside translation, would an "audio appropedia" be of interest? The MobilED project is being taken in new directions and maybe this community would like to find innovaive new directions for the Text To Speech (TTS) access via mobile phones?

Links:

• MobilED
  • development site for MobilED
  • Mobiled v2 development site.
  • python-mms - a python library for the creation, manipulation and encoding/decoding of MMS messages used in mobile phones.
  • Mobiled v3: Entangled - a distributed hash table (DHT) based on Kademlia, as well as a peer-to-peer tuple space implementation.
  • Mobiled v3 platform - development site (code only, currently hosted by UNICEF).
• OpenPhone: Dialogpalette - web site (includes the Asterisk TTS modules developed for the OpenPhone/MobilED projects).
• LWAZI - mobile access to public services in South Africa. Major project outputs likely to be usable in 2009.
• UniWiki (some new applications are emerging here too).