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Kids app 'translates' grown-up paper into child-friendly articles - lardycake - 2013-02-08
Just found this article on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21366825
Looks like it could be a useful app for us learners.
Kids app 'translates' grown-up paper into child-friendly articles - Stansfield123 - 2013-02-08
Meh, it's a gimmick to sell phones. The real advancements for this to work need to be made on the AI level, not on the interface and marketing level.
Kids app 'translates' grown-up paper into child-friendly articles - uisukii - 2013-02-08
It looks interesting, though aside from rendering certain kanji into kana, and highlighting titles and stuff, what does it do?
For learners such as myself, I find it easier to read a sentence structure with kanji as opposed to "simplifying" the kanji into kana. I'm looking at this the wrong way, aren't I?
Kids app 'translates' grown-up paper into child-friendly articles - Zarxrax - 2013-02-08
From watching the video, it appears that certain articles in the paper will be marked by a blue outline which would indicate it is compatible with the app. Apparently there must be some sort of marking on it which allows it to retrieve a "kid friendly" version of the article from a server somewhere. I think the articles are probably completely re-written by someone.
Kids app 'translates' grown-up paper into child-friendly articles - Stansfield123 - 2013-02-09
Zarxrax Wrote:From watching the video, it appears that certain articles in the paper will be marked by a blue outline which would indicate it is compatible with the app. Apparently there must be some sort of marking on it which allows it to retrieve a "kid friendly" version of the article from a server somewhere. I think the articles are probably completely re-written by someone.Oh. That makes sense.