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How virtual reality could help revive endangered language and culture

Every two weeks, a language is at risk of disappearing. According to the UN, at least 50% of the 7,000 different languages spoken around the world today could either disappear or become seriously endangered by the end of this century, leading to a significant loss of cultural diversity.

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Mere Husband Ki Biwi box office collection Day 2: Arjun Kapoor, Rakul Preet Singh, and Bhumi Pednekar starrer sees minimal growth on Saturday

Mere Husband Ki Biwi box office collection Day 2: Arjun Kapoor, Rakul Preet Singh, and Bhumi Pednekar starrer sees minimal growth on Saturday

The romantic comedy Mere Husband Ki Biwi, starring Arjun Kapoor, Rakul Preet Singh, and Bhumi Pednekar, witnessed slight growth at the box office on its second day. After a modest opening of Rs 1.5 crore on Friday, the film’s collections rose to an estimated Rs 1.65 crore on Saturday, bringing…

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What do countries call themselves? The stories behind their original names

What do countries call themselves? The stories behind their original names

Around half of the world’s countries have native or local names that differ from their English versions.

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What is Synthesia? Everything we know about the best enterprise AI video generator

Making professional AI videos for work just got that much easier

Bilingualism and merit go hand in hand at the Supreme Court of Canada

Influential voices in the Canadian public sphere have been criticizing the 2023 amendments to the Official Languages Act (OLA) that require federal courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, to be able to hear cases in English and French without the assistance of an interpreter.

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‘Historic day’ for deaf community as Sign Language Bill moves step closer to law

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons used sign language in the Assembly chamber during the Bill’s second stage on Tuesday.

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Apple Intelligence Siri overhaul hits roadblock, delay possible

Apple has already promised that Apple Intelligence will be available in new languages in April, which is when the iOS 18.4 update is expected to launch. Read further on Dynamite News:

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You can now talk to Microsoft Copilot Voice in 40 more languages

You can now talk to Microsoft Copilot Voice in 40 more languages

Microsoft Copilot Voice adds 40 languages.

Learning a new language? Your mindset matters more than ‘having a knack’

Learning a new language? Your mindset matters more than ‘having a knack’

If you stumble when you need to talk to someone in a language that isn’t your native language, do you think: “I just don’t have the knack for languages” or “Maybe I am not cut out to learn another language?”

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Why the African continent has a role to play in developing AI

Why the African continent has a role to play in developing AI

Heads of state, top government officials, and scientists from around 100 countries have gathered in Paris for a two-day international summit on developing artificial intelligence (AI). Decisions are expected to be reached on AI's real-world impact and how to take it forward together. The African continent has an important role…

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Meta is boosting its speech and translation AI with a fresh program

Meta is boosting its speech and translation AI with a fresh program

Meta and UNESCO are teaming up to boost AI translation for lesser-known languages.

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Europe wants AI to speak its languages

Europe wants AI to speak its languages

The OpenEuroLLM project includes leading regional AI companies like Aleph Alpha and AMD-owned Silo AI.

Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds

Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is known as Zipf’s law.

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Humpback whale song and human language are more similar than you might think. Here’s why

Researchers have found a pattern indicating certain ‘words’ are used more often than others – but humans won’t be speaking whale any time soon

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DNA study cracks centuries-old mystery over origin of languages spoken by half the world

Indo-European languages traced to population living in steppe grasslands 6,500 years ago

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Elections mean more misinformation. Here’s what we know about how it spreads in migrant communities

Migrants in Australia often encounter disinformation targeting their communities. However, disinformation circulated in non-English languages and within private chat groups often falls beyond the reach of Australian public agencies, national media and platform algorithms.

Murf AI Review: Features, Cons, Pricing [Tested AI Voice]

Murf AI Review MethodologyGeekflare tested Murf AI, evaluating its AI voice generation, voice cloning, translation, and multilingual support. Combining

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How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes

Remember cassettes? If you’re old enough, you might remember dropping one into a player, only to have it screech at you when you pressed “play”. We’ve fixed that problem. But why would we bother?

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New evidence confirms our Indigenous languages have a common source, but how they spread remains a mystery

Have you ever wondered how Australia’s many Indigenous languages relate to one another and how far back the connections go?

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Why building big AIs costs billions – and how Chinese startup DeepSeek dramatically changed the calculus

State-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude have captured the public imagination by producing fluent text in multiple languages in response to user prompts. Those companies have also captured headlines with the huge sums they’ve invested to build ever more powerful models.

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Babies as young as 4 months can tell how the sounds of different languages are made – new research

Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you’ve ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it’s because they’re picking up on more than just sounds – they’re learning how those sounds are made.

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Finding ‘Kape’: How Language Documentation helps us preserve an endangered language

Shiyue Wu, a member of Francesco Perono Cacciafoco’s research team at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), who is currently developing intensive fieldwork in Alor Island to document and preserve endangered languages, discovered and first documented Kape during a Language Documentation fieldwork in August 2024 and therefore actively contributed to this study.

Universal translators are tantalizing close as Facebook's Meta reveals its tech can translate between 101 languages

Facebook's Meta reveals its SeamlessM4T tech can translate between 101 languages.

The evolution of language from ancient origins to the third wave of Agentic AI

Discover how agentic AI is transforming communication, collaboration, and the future of work.

You Know More Than You Think: 50 General Knowledge Questions To Prove It

Are you ready for a brain workout? This general knowledge challenge is designed to unleash your trivia master. With topics ranging from pop culture to geography, from culture to science, from languages to art, you’ll find a wide range of challenging questions to put your knowledge to the test. The…

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