Software to meet 'Strine'
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Saturday, January 1, 2000 - 02:00
Software to meet 'Strine'
Tourists in Australia are often bamboozled by the unique form of English spoken by the natives, so imagine the problems faced by speech recognition software that must make sense of phrases such as "Pass the tinny cobber, she's a bottler!" Dragon NaturallySpeaking 4.0 has been localised to deal with the unique "Strine" dialect after a lengthy process of adapting the software to deal with Australian conditions.