Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU'12)

Workshop by Stéphane Boyera, Web Foundation

Type of Activity: workshop(paper, event/conference/workshop etc) Description of the target:

 Target group aimed: Academic community

 Event Title: Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU'12)

 Event Link: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2012/

 Audience size: 80 people

 Place of the event: Cape Town - South Africa 

Focus: Speech technologies for under-resources languagesl focus

summary of the activity: keynote:

http://public.webfoundation.org/2012/05/sb_sltu.pptx

Expected Impact: engaging the speech technologies for under-resourced languages to focus on ICT4D services, and make available speech modules to ICT developers. Expected impact: increased awareness of voices results on underesourced languages (bambara and bomu), increased awareness of voices action

Summary of the output: 15 business cards collected, links established with 5 research teams in Europe working on topics directly relevant to VOICES.