Arabic is the Fastest Growing Language on the Internet
And by fast I mean really fast. In the past 10 years the use of Arabic on the Internet grew by an impressive 2500%. Whereas in the year 2000 only 2 million Arabic-speaking users surfed the world wide...
View ArticleWith Arabic Web Days Google Wants to Create a Vibrant Arabic Web
Though Arabic is the fastest growing language on the Internet there is still only a small percentage of content available in the language. According to Google just 3 percent of the global online...
View ArticleWhat are the Top 5 World Languages in 2050?
What are the languages that will be most widely spoken by the middle of this century? According to so called engco model of language forecasting the top 5 languages in 2050 are going to be Chinese...
View ArticleWikispeech: How Wikipedia will learn to Talk to You
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has partnered with the swedish KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan) Royal Institute of Technology to develop a crowdsourced speech engine for visually impaired...
View ArticleSkype Translator now supports Arabic
Skype Translator, the real time feature that translates spoken language into written text during a Skype call, added Arabic as its latest supported language. This brings the total of supported spoken...
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