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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. You mean... by Solra+Bizna · · Score: 0, Troll

    Like this?

    -:sigma.SB

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    WARN
    THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM
  2. Vietnam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    shoulda killed all them VCs

  3. health by Lord+Ender · · Score: -1, Troll

    contestants swilled free Cokes to keep themselves awake during the 24-hour, no-sleep phase of the competition
    It is detestable that a contest sponsored by Microsoft would encourage such unhealthy behavior. It isn't surprising, though. I imagine Microsoft would love to train a generation of employees to sacrifice their health and youth for the company using such practices. By the time the increased incidence of heart and stress-related injuries would start hitting the company HMO budget, these jobs will have outsourced to an even poorer part of the world.
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  4. Source code? by skeeto · · Score: 0, Troll

    Source code please? If it is not available then they are a bunch of lametards.

  5. Re:Here we go again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I doubt it. Thai programmers are crap and can only copy stuff. They can also only use Microsoft products too becuase that is what the books teach.

    On my way to work in Bangkok as i type this on my phone .