Yes, interesting learnt something new about my own culture today! Apple has called it Hindi and they’ve got dictation to Devanagari which is super responsive and accurate - a pleasant surprise.
Hindi might be an appropriate term if they're doing speech-to-text or text-to-speech or machine translation (because there are things there that will be specific to the individual spoken language variety, even involving distinguishing Hindi and Urdu for some purposes).
They could also, for example, have support for Nepali, which is also normally written in the same alphabet but is definitely a different language from Hindi. In that case the language support would be different at a software level, like the vocabulary and/or grammatical patterns that the speech-to-text system is trying to recognize.
The problem (whether for a computer or a human being!) of figuring out what language something is actually written in can be tricky when many languages use identical or related scripts:
Thanks, was referring to characters not written natively. Cool, now just need to find a Vietnamese girlfriend to share this with so I can score some points :P
I think there’s a valid critique to be had at centrally managed education systems. We take our freedoms for granted in the west and the author is simply showing the mirror across in communism.
Creating a bunch of subservient robots is not a winning strategy in the long run as any education leads to later moments of self reflection which will create hate for the system that interned you.
As for modern day journalism, I’m with you I wish there was better way to fund voices but this is what we have for now! At least the topic is relevant to the larger debate going on.
I see, she wants to remain in the US. I’ve recommended research and then applying for the special abilities (O) category (if the teaching post is not granted.)
