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Title | Article: Making Technology Speak Your Language |
Body | From http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/making-technology-speak-your-language-1908197.html Making technology speak your language February 23, 2010 Microsoft and UNESCO are working together to help people across the globe access technology in their own languages. UNESCO is working with a number of technology partners to ensure native languages are not lost. Microsoft's Local Language Program (LLP) aims to enrich the lives by providing people with access to new technology while trying to promote diverse cultural identities and preserve local languages. It also hopes to enable users to assist in the continuation and future development of native languages. On February 22 Microsoft announced they had added an additional 59 new Language Interface Packs (LIPs) for Windows 7 and Office 2010 to their existing offering of 67 languages. A second initiative, called Caption Language Interface Packs (CLIPs), enables computer users to customize a base language with more than 400,000 terms. Read the full article at http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/making-technology-speak-your-language-1908197.html Read a related article at http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/more-than-1-billion-speakers-of-endangered-languages-get-access-to-technology-84937407.html |
Source | The Independent |
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