[CC] HINDI CHATBOT OPENS INTERNET TO MILLIONS

[George(s) Lessard]

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HINDI CHATBOT OPENS INTERNET TO MILLIONS

Computer science students in India have developed an interactive 
software program fluent in Hindi that could demystify computers for 
millions of Indian citizens. "The good thing about Deepti [the program] is 
that it is suitable for the Indian environment," says Ritvik Sahajpal, one 
of the students who worked on the program. "Deepti speaks in Hindi and 
since the majority of the people in India are computer illiterate and don't 
speak English, this feature is really great." The students say Deepti 
could be used to make government services more accessible, or it could 
be linked with touchscreen technology so that people with little or no 
knowledge of computers could use Internet kiosks. 
(BBC News 27 Aug 2002)
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2209775.stm  

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