storming global language barriers with hi-tech / hi-touch video subtitles
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Storming GlobalLanguage Barriers
Peter S. Crosby @pscrosby
Digital Leaders NYC | July 2013
World Languages: how many?
Most
Populous
Native
Languages
in the World -
out of 6,700
Languages!
Global Internet Usage: 75% non-USA
New International Internet Domains
First four new top-level domains - all non-roman character based:
• .net in Arabic: شبكة
• .game in Chinese: 游戏
• .online in Russian: онлайн
• .site in Russian: сайт
Global Internet Penetration: only 34%
Universal Translator
Machine Translation Now
• Google Translate = 200 million use people daily
• 57th language added was Cherokee (<10k speakers)
• Text-to-Text: Machine Translations (MT), Translation Memories (TM), word pairs, big data, algorithms
• Audio-to-Text: Linguistics, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Computer Learning, Artificial Intelligence?*
60 Years of Speech Recognition = IBM’s Watson wins!
Key Artificial Intelligence Test *
Turing Test: “no discernible difference between conversation generated by a machine and that of an intelligent person.” ~ Alan Turing, UK, 1940s
Success by 2029, says futurist Ray Kurzweil (Singularity) No way, says Mitch Kapor (Lotus Notes) = $20,000 Bet*
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers & Humans ApartCAPTCHA = 200m words / day
Mobile-cellular Subscriptions = 6.8 billion
* Estimates by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World in 2013 Facts
Mobile Audio Translators
3.3 Billion people live in villages…
…without high-speed connection to the world.
Video4Villages
Video4Villages• Mission to empower 1 Billion women globally with access to health, knowledge, and skills.
• Local languages will be subtitled and voice-dubbed by regional students, workforce trainees, and volunteers using Dotsub’s global platform.
• Health Phone pilot: natal heath care information with videos in local languages available on micro SD chips.
• Video content of any type – in any source language – can then be localized and made available for all.
Massive Online Open Course (MOOCs): Stanford
165k Students | 190 Countries | 40 Languages
The Rosetta Project• 60%-90% of the 6,700 languages in the world predicted to disappear by 2100
• Most have little or no documentation
• The Rosetta Project: public digital library of human languages
• 14,000 pages / >1,500 languages
• Hi-Tech / Hi-Touch Intelligence
• “Artifact for the Future”
The Rosetta Project
Turing Test of Artificial Intelligence by 2029?*
No? Yes?
Peter S. Crosby – peter@dosub.com – 650-533-3313
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