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Thai Students Score a Prize For Speech Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the illiterate?-write-for-free-help dept.

Julie188 writes "A team of four Thai students beat out 10,000 competitors to win the $25,000 prize in the Microsoft 2007 Imagine Cup. Their project is text-to-speech software in which computers read aloud typed and handwritten commands. The software will allow people who can't read to interact with a PC. Imagine Cup judge Rand Morimoto has been blogging on the whole experience — from his video of the opening ceremonies to how contestants swilled free Cokes to keep themselves awake during the 24-hour, no-sleep phase of the competition."

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  1. Big breakthrough... by Archtech · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The software will allow people who can't read to crash Vista..."

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    I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
  2. Test input by LMacG · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder what this system says when the input text is "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"?

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    Slightly disreputable, albeit gregarious
  3. Blind people want to use Vista by Dancindan84 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cancel or Allow?

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  4. Jesus Christ by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 1, Funny

    The software will allow people who can't read to interact with a PC

    First you bring VB to the world and let those who shouldn't develop ANYTHING software wise do so... now your plan is to let idiots who can't even read to use a computer? And we wonder why the computing world is a bog of what it once was...

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    "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson