[atlarge-discuss] FYI: HINDI CHATBOT OPENS INTERNET TO MILLIONS

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HINDI CHATBOT OPENS INTERNET TO MILLIONS

Computer science students in India have developed an interactive software 
program fluent in Hindi that could demystify computers for millions of 
Indian citizens. "The good thing about Deepti [the program] is that it is 
suitable for the Indian environment," says Ritvik Sahajpal, one of the 
students who worked on the program. "Deepti speaks in Hindi and since the 
majority of the people in India are computer illiterate and don't speak 
English, this feature is really great." The students say Deepti could be 
used to make government services more accessible, or it could be linked 
with touchscreen technology so that people with little or no knowledge of 
computers could use Internet kiosks. (BBC News 27 Aug 2002)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2209775.stm

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