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Susie Dent's word of the day: recrudescence.
#SusieDent #Language #WordOfTheDay #us #us2024 #election2024 #election
Just found this article stating that using the #language #attribute for individual words within a text is not a good idea when you want #ScreenReader users to have a good #UX. It's just overengineered #a11y.
I'm a bit surprised as you always read otherwise (as the article also mentions).
Are some screen reader users here that can share their experiences? I'm really curious now 🤔
netz-barrierefrei.de/en/lang-a…
How the Language Attribute is demaging Accessibility - Accessibility Consulting - Training & Support
The language attribute seems to make sense for accessibility, but only for sighted people.www.netz-barrierefrei.de
I think #Anki holds a great deal of potential for #blind learners of #languages and other subjects:
The desktop app uses Qt 6, so isn't entirely unusable. It's also fully open source.
The iOS app is extremely usable with VoiceOver, albeit relatively expensive for a mobile app at £24.99, and not open source.
The web interface is usable, but would currently cause people to think more about how to use it than the actual subject they were studying. Still, with some user scripting, it could be workable.
And finally, all Anki functionality is available via their Python library, which could be used in a command line app or more #accessible frontend.
Of course, the issue is always the time needed to take things from where they are now to where they need to be. And I suspect a significant challenge would be having screen readers speak/braille things in the correct language as hopefully declared by each flashcard.
In Finnish the expression when you accidentally button your shirt up with the wrong button to the wrong buttonhole, thus offsetting the whole thing is "in the way of the drunkard's buttons" or juoponnapissa. If there's a fun English expression for the same thing, I don't know it. If your language has any fun expression for it, I also do not know it, and would like to know!
What language do you toot/post in the most?
Do you write and read Toots mostly in the same language or do you stick to one language or mix it up;
If you use a different language for different topics or day time i would be curios to know
#Mastodon #Language #SocialMedia #OnlineCommunities #Multilingual #Sprache #Idioma ＃語言 #Lingvo #Lingua ＃言語 #언어 #שפּראַך #Langue #Taal #Мова #Язык
- English 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇦🇬 🇧🇧🇮🇪 🇯🇲 🇳🇿🇱🇨 . .. (100%, 7 votes)
- Japanese 🇯🇵 (0%, 0 votes)
- Spanish 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇱 🇵🇪 🇧🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇸🇻 🇺🇾 . .. (0%, 0 votes)
- Chinese 🇨🇳 🇭🇰 🇹🇼 🇲🇴 🇸🇬 (0%, 0 votes)
- German 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇦🇹 🇱🇮 (28%, 2 votes)
- French 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇧🇪 🇹🇫 🇼🇫 🇾🇹 🇵🇲 🇬🇵 🇧🇯 🇭🇹 . .. (14%, 1 vote)
- Italian 🇮🇹 (0%, 0 votes)
- Portuguese 🇧🇷 🇵🇹 🇦🇴 🇨🇻 🇬🇼 🇸🇹 🇲🇿 (0%, 0 votes)
- Dutch 🇳🇱 🇸🇷 🇦🇼 (0%, 0 votes)
- Esperanto 🏳⭐💚 (0%, 0 votes)
- Other (tell me in the comments!) (0%, 0 votes)
If you're a #language nerd like I am, then you won't have missed the @mozilla #CommonVoice v19 #speech #dataset release - which now features 131 languages! Here's my #dataviz, done in @observablehq of the v19 #metadata coverage.
I've updated the visualisation this time around with human-readable language names instead of their ISO-639 or BCP-47 language codes to make it it easier to read.
There's some interesting observations:
▶ Catalan (ca) continues to be leader in terms of data - speaking volumes about the efforts to revitalise culture and language in Catalunya. It's also one of the few languages that has data for all age groups, particularly older speakers - this sort of data is missing for most other languages.
▶ Kiswahili (sw) is one of the languages where there is more data for female-identifying speakers than for male-identifying speakers ♀ - although Japanese (ja), Western Mari (mrj) and Luganda (lg) do pretty well here, too!
▶ Sentence domains can now be categorised, and although most new sentences are "general", Albanian (sq) has a lot of sentences related to law and government.
▶ Tsonga (ts), a Bantu language spoken in Southern Africa, has dethroned Icelandic (is) as the language with the highest average utterance duration. I don't know enough about Tsonga to speculate why - it's a somewhat agglutinative language, but many Tsonga works are generally short.
▶ Bengali / Bangla (bn) has a significant amount of data that is not yet validated, and therefore does not appear in training / dev / test splits. There is a similar case for many languages new to Common Voice - it takes time to validate.
▶ The language with the highest number of average contributions per speaker is Taita (dav), a Bantu language from Kenya.
What do you make of the data visualisation? Are there any other insights you can see?
Big thanks to the CV team for all their efforts - EM, Jessica Rose, Dmitrij Feller and Justin Grant.
Wow, English-only people (or Western languages, for that matter) are so naïve. In case you didn't know, the lang attribute is very important in East Asian languages.
lobste.rs/s/9ck6y9/what_progra…
I've been working on a thing for a few weeks, and I'm hoping there are #Language / #FileFormat / #Markdown nerds and experts on Mastodon who can provide some input and sanity-check.
I looked for an existing markdown extension file format that would allow me to write a document in multiple languages, and I couldn't find anything that fit the bill.
So, I decided to create my own. 🤷♂️
github.com/OmenApps/PolyglotMa…
#PolyglotMarkdown #Languages #OpenSource #LanguageTools #Translation #Multilingual
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GitHub - OmenApps/PolyglotMarkdown: A versatile Markdown extension designed to manage and display multilingual content within a single document, offering powerful features like language-specific content inclusion, multi-language metadata support, and vers
A versatile Markdown extension designed to manage and display multilingual content within a single document, offering powerful features like language-specific content inclusion, multi-language meta...GitHub
Hello Jamers 😍
As you know, Transifex serves as our #collaborative translation #management platform. While the core principles remain similar, this tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application. 📲
Are you #multilingual? Your skills can make a real impact! Join our translation efforts and help us break #language barriers! 💪
👀 Want to know how ?
Here's the link: jami.net/how-to-contribute-to-…
#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters
How to contribute to translations on Transifex - Part 2
Transifex serves as our collaborative translation management platform. This tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application.jami (Jami)
So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punched paper tape.
"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."
chsi.harvard.edu/harvard-ibm-m…
#til #computers #development #language #history
One of the phrases that’s been popular in China this year according to this article: sixthtone.com/news/1014370
For more context, people in China have been assembling plain white bread sandwiches to try to understand how we live in this part of the world, and they are posting through it (the idea of eating anything cold or raw, especially a vegetable, is seen as especially disgusting in the Chinese world, with some exceptions)
theguardian.com/food/2023/jun/…
#Food #China #Language #Chinese #Mandarin
‘Lunch of suffering’: plain ‘white people food’ goes viral in China
Social media platforms inundated with users amused and bemused by raw vegetables and cold sandwichesRafqa Touma (The Guardian)
15 + 1 facts about the Finnish language
(A non-native English version of this blog post.) Recently, the blog called Very Finnish Problems published a list of “fun facts” about the Finnish language. As a typical killjoy linguist, I was a …Kieliö – sekalaista aattelehdintaa kielestä ja kielistä
Hallo !Friendica Support,
wie ich gerade festgestellt habe, taucht mein Server in der Statistik auf Fediverse Observer als englischsprachig auf. Allerdings habe ich sowohl im Admin-Panel als auch in der local.config.php die Sprache auf Deutsch gestellt. Muss ich da sonst noch irgendwo etwas angeben? So wichtig ist es mir ja nicht, das es meist kein offener Server ist, aber eigenartig finde ich es schon.
Tomorrow at noon EST, I will give a #talk on the #accessibility of #language #learning and #linguistics in general for #screenReader users as part of the a11yTalks event. This will be a public event with no need to register so if this is something any of you are interested in, here's the link :) a11ytalks.com/posts/2023-MAY/ #speaker #a11y
Do you speak Accessibility? - A look at accessibility hurdles for language learning and linguistics - A11yTalks
One would think that language has been solved in 2023. We have translation apps, sign languages, an international phonetic alphabet that is supposed to be able to represent any sound in any language for academics to endlessly discuss over.Do you speak Accessibility? - A look at accessibility hurdles for language learning and linguistics - A11yTalks
This seems to be becoming a habit of mine now as I begin to use Mastodon more and continue to learn more about it each day.
This one covers the options available to you when posting content such as Alt Text and Content Warnings but also talks about language settings and using filters to tidy up your timelines.
Any boosts will be greatly appreciated so we can help everyone get the most out of Mastodon.
#twittermigration #MastodonTips #accessibility #language #feditips
How to Compose a Post on Mastodon (all the options)
Whilst Mastodon is similar to other social media services, there are some really cool features available as part of Mastodon that can help you make your post...YouTube
Mindblowing 🤯
#Whisper is an #openSource #speechRecognition model written in #Python by #OpenAI. I’ve just seen it in action. Extract an #mp3 from a video, run it through Whisper, and it turns every spoken word into text. It even does a very decent job in #Danish. Perfect for subtitling #TV and #video. I am very impressed.
#ai #language #transcription #speechToText
GitHub - openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision - GitHub - openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak SupervisionGitHub
cargo careful: run your Rust code with extra careful debug checking
Did you know that the standard library is full of useful checks that users never get to see? There are plenty of debug assertions in the standard library that will do things like check that...www.ralfj.de
By the way, nowadays I usually refer to servers as gardens. I believe this will make owning a garden sound a lot less technical and a lot more fun. It would also create expectations of ease of use.
As example, freedombox and yunohost are aiming to be such garden operating systems. And Pioneer Freedombox is a garden.