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Category Archive: Language

Opening access: Text ↔︎ Speech

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Do these match the abilities of a human yet, or are they still only for those with impairments, or as novelties?

December 9, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Getting started with Storyspace 3

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Creating you first hypertext in Storyspace 3: from linear to the more complex using basic and text links.

December 8, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Don’t ditch the index(es)

Is it just me, or are printed books increasingly being published without any index(es)?

December 8, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Opening access: Wrise, a different word processor

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It reads to you, can be tagged up to create audiobooks, and has superb predictive word completion. It is not just ideal for those with dyslexia.

December 6, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Emojis: cute but deeply flawed

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Akihabara is fertile territory for the likes of emoji: exploratory, fun, chic, mobile, language-free, but deeply flawed.

December 5, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Storyspace: the original hypertext app

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Born in the same year as HyperCard, this is the most sophisticated authoring environment for true hypertext. It is now available for OS X El Capitan.

December 4, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Give us a break: keep Unicode clean

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Branding Unicode emojis is just too much. Just say no to Nestlé’s ‘break’ proposal.

December 2, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Lost in translation: an amusing ad

Machine translation has come on leaps and bounds, but there are still times when Google Translate and other […]

November 23, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Just Take This Down: Optical Character Recognition

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OCR was supposed to be an essential tool for turning scanned documents from images into searchable text content. Does it?

November 11, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology

A thousand strong

This is the 1,000th article I have posted here. Pause for a quick gloat and sniff of champagne.

November 10, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

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