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MISTICA: Translation tool used in FSM

From: Deirdre Williams ([email protected])
Date: s�b feb 14 2004 - 09:11:07 AST

Speaking many languages
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Wired, the US-based magazine reported recently how the World Social Forum
held in Mumbai could speak in 13 languages and yet allow everyone to
understand what the others were saying. In previous years, translations were
offered to delegates in three languages: English, French and Spanish. This
year, in addition to these languages, translations are being provided in
Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Bahasa
Indonesian and Thai. And yet, the service costs are minimal, wrote Swaroopa
Iyengar.

The translations were done by an international network of volunteer
interpreters called Babels, using a newly created Free/Libre and Open Source
GNU/Linux software. "The software can be run on a midrange computer,
therefore cutting out the high costs of translation associated with special
high-speed computers, consoles and mixing equipment," said Wired.

"This is the first time we have used such an innovative free-share on such a
large scale," said Sophie Gosselin, a member of Nomad, the organization that
created the translation software was quoted as saying.

http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61966,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4

From: Bytesforall, February 2004.

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