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Can't read? Talking phones will help
In India, if you are you can't read but want to use a mobile phone, not to worry -- help is at hand, courtesy Reliance Infocomm, reports rediff.com. "The Ambani company is launching speech-based application which is network-based and works with any cell phone. An illiterate villager need only mention the name of the person he or she wants to talk to and, presto, the mobile phone will do the rest of the job -- by scanning a Reliance phone directory". More to the point, an illiterate person can speak in any of several Indian languages and dialects. So a villager in the western ghats of Maharashtra (who speaks a different Marathi dialect) can speak in his dialect into the phone, without pressing too many buttons". How do these voice-based commands work? "The handset will recognise the command, translate it into text, retrieve the phone number of the person being telephoned from the data base, translate the data into voice and transmit it to the user's handset". "According to the 2001 census, 34.62 per cent of India's population is illiterate". |
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