multilingual dictionary of fish and fish products

• The Call Heard 'Round the World

A report from comScore Network, an Internet rating service, found that 14 of the top 25 Web sites based in the US were visited more by users outside of the country than in it. As a result, companies in just about every industry now want to reach potential customers who are not only located down the street but also across the ocean. The first step in reaching these potential clients is by speaking with them. Traditionally, enterprises viewed English speech user interfaces as the bridge to potential customers, but that outlook is changing. This realization is changing the design requirements for user interfaces in speech systems, such as interactive voice response (IVR), text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), and unified messaging solutions. While they still are far from perfect, a growing numbe...

... are now starting to build multilingual systems. "About 20 percent of our customers now ad... systems in order to market their products successfully," says Sue Ellen Reager, CEO at @Inte... are kono, sono, or ano, but a literal dictionary definition lists these words as these, those, and ... change drastically: rather than the fish, the sentence talks about these fish. Another diff...

• Speech Technology
• Vol. 12 Nbr. 4, May 2007