Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd May 2008 20:52 UTC, submitted by irbis
One of the biggest problems facing the European Union today is the fact that within its borders, 23 languages are spoken. This means that all the important documents have to be translated by a whole army of translators, which costs the taxpayer more than 1 billion Euros a year - and companies trading within the EU spend millions more. The EU-funded TC-STAR project aims to tackle this issue with technology: a system that eats speech in one language, and outputs that same speech in another.
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2008-05-05
quote: "That article, although long and comprehensive, doesn't tell why using the extra letters of Esperanto with breves and circumflexes is supposed to make the language easy to use?"
read http://remush.be/rebuttal/spelling.html ;
In 1897 the letters ĉ ĝ ĥ ĵ ŝ ŭ were quite easy to write by hand and with an azerty keyboard (French WAS then the preferred international language). It's later than unsophisticated computers could not manage. Nowadays it does not require exceptional skills to type them.
However if you are working abroad on a foreign keyboard, use
ch gh hh jh sh u or any other method that pleases you.
Isn't that nice? What's the problem?