Open source technology assists linguistic diversity</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Open source technology assists linguistic diversity"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Open,source,technology,assists,linguistic,diversity"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">18-05-2006</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Open source technology assists linguistic diversity</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Johannesburg, South Africa (Tectonic): The GNApp framework enables people who use assistive technologies to design and develop their own user interfaces, based on the individual's need, education and literacy. […] The other major advantage to the GNApp framework is [that] we are able to address our rich cultural and linguistic diversity. All the TTS (Text To Speech) systems are only available in European languages. If you are an individual who needs to use AAC and your only really language of communication is Zulu and there are only English-based TTS systems available it becomes a huge barrier. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=999 " target="blank">www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=999 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show