2. Overview of Language Technology
Chapter 2 Overview: In this chapter, we give you an overview of language technology. Language technology focuses on making systems do useful tasks with human language, whether spoken or written. This chapter highlights the huge impact language technology can have on communication, automation, and interaction.
We look at the benefits of using language technology in communication. We also look at its role in automating translation and interpreting services. It enables real-time communication with communities and makes it easier to collect and analyze data, and evaluate programs. The chapter focuses on the potential for language technology to bridge language gaps, increase inclusion, and get more people to participate in programs.
The section on potential uses makes it clear how important language technology can be in disaster response, education, healthcare, and environmental conservation. We look at the way language technology can help in these areas:
supporting humanitarian aid
improving access to educational materials
making healthcare communications more effective and
helping the environment by passing on messages about climate change.
We present the key terminology and concepts used in language technology, explaining terms like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS), Machine Translation (MT), and chatbot. Understanding these key terms will help readers to make better use of the playbook. To sum up, Chapter 2 is like a foundation. It gives you the basic knowledge you need to understand the importance of language technology. It can help you deal with communication challenges, improve inclusion, and make programs more effective in many different sectors.
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