US Census Bureau Multilingual Speakers are increasing Did you know that the number of people in the US who speak a language other than English at home has nearly tripled in the past four decades? According to a recent report from the US Census Bureau, 22% of US residents (or 67.8 million people) now primarily …
Linguistics News Zoom supports Sign Language Interpretation LJL learned recently (Nov. 3 blog post) that Zoom added a new feature to make its video communication platform more accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing users by providing a specialized view for sign language interpreting on their meetings and webinars. The meeting host can arrange for a designated …
Our founder makes it to the Seattle inno under 25! Subha Vadlamannati, our founder was selected for Seattle Inno under 25! It was announced in the Puget Sound Business Journal on Oct 31st. They showcased young local leaders (under 25 years of age) in the tech ecosystem ranging from startup founders to investors to researchers. Winners are selected based on their community outreach, previous …
Speech to Speech translation Meta, the parent company of Facebook, recently announced that they developed an AI translation engine that can translate from an unwritten language. So far AI translations depended on the availability of a vast amount of text material for the language that needed to be translated. With speech-to-speech translation that constraint has …
Co- Chief Technologist – EduLang Eshaan Barkataki is a sophomore at High Technology High School. After he started coding at the age of 5, he took interest in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, and frontend development. His projects include building a program that controls a computer using hand signs, building a Raspberry Pi robot …
Linguistics Justice League challenge Event announcement : creAItivity is partnering up with the Linguistics Justice League to bridge the gap between low and high-resource languages through AI! Register by October 25th with this quick form Register Our Sponsors! Sign up for the Linguistics Justice League Challenge on October 29th to learn about NLP (Natural Language Processing), …
2022 September Newsletter September Updates Nilekani center AI4Bharat The AI4Bharat was set-up as an initiative of IIT Madras to build open-source language AI for Indian languages. This Center, inaugurated by Nandan Nilekani, is being supported by Rohini and Nandan Nilekani with a grant of Rs 36 crore through Nilekani Philanthropies. According to Associate Prof. Mitesh …
Interview with Tarjimly’s cOO, Sara Haj-Hassan Last week our founder, Subha Vadlamannati had the privilege of talking to Sara Haj-Hassan, COO of Tarjimly. Tarjimly focuses on providing translation services to refugees across the world. Sara leads the development of partnerships with organizations that can benefit from or contribute to Tarjimly‘s services. She has experience working with immigrant and refugee populations …
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August Newsletter LJL is very excited to share some exciting news in this newsletter! LJL volunteers have been working hard to building mobile apps. PuzzLing – Development PuzzLing App has absorbed a new LJL project to soon offer speech and listening skills practice! The creators of the PuzzLing app are now working with other LJL …
