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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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    "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde