<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I just wanted to update you on this initiative. With your help, Microsoft has now released autocompletion mobile phone keyboards for White Hmong, Hani, Hruso, and Paite. The user generated corpora for Hruso and Paite have already exceeded the training data in size, in the case of Paite by orders of magnitude. <br></div><div><br></div><div>So, let me just remind you all that we are still eager to add more languages with your help. In particular, I would like to see more Kuki-Chin and Karenic languages added. Also, if you can help promote the existing keyboards among those languages where they exist (also Tibetan, Dzongka, Burmese, and Mizo) that would be nice. <br></div><div><br></div><div>very best, <br></div><div>Nathan<br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:10 PM Nathan Hill <<a href="mailto:nh36@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank">nh36@soas.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I just thought I would mention that I have been working with a friend and colleague at Microsoft on developing autocompletion for minority languages. They have an app called 'Swiftkey' that is available in over 300 languages and they are always eager to add more. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Personally I think that things like whether mobile phones support a language will be one of the key factors in which languages are sustainable in the long run. <br></div><div><br></div><div>So, I want to invite any of you out there, if you think the communities you work with would be interested in having their language supported, and you have some linguistic data (continuous text of a conversation register in the orthography that users would want) that you can share with me, I would be very happy to work with you and my friend at Microsoft to add the language(s) you work on. <br></div><div><br></div><div>best, <br></div><div>Nathan<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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