Apple Siri, Google Voice could help save the world's languages (fwd link)

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Apple Siri, Google Voice could help save the world's languages

By Chris Jablonski | November 14, 2011, 6:59pm PST

Summary: 80% of all web communication is in ten languages, yet 95% of
humanity speaks roughly 300 languages. As digital services and devices
move to voice control, the commercial opportunity could help close the
digital linguistic divide, says the Long Now Foundation.

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