Thai Students Score a Prize For Speech Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 13, 2007 @08:33AM 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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Re:health by JohnFluxx · 2007-08-13 09:05 · Score: 4, Interesting

At google, there's no unhealthy food around at all. All the drinks are smoothies, fruit drinks, etc. And all free.

Interesting difference in culture.

(Actually I think there might have been a few cans of fizzy drink in the cafeteria. Can't quite remember)