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By the way, Sanskrit is an ancient Indian language and, while it's still extensively used, it's not a main language of day-to-day communication by Indian people
by schoen 4y ago
By the way, Sanskrit is an ancient Indian language and, while it's still extensively used, it's not a main language of day-to-day communication by Indian people.
The writing system that developed with Sanskrit and that's still used for both Sanskrit and several modern languages of India is called Devanagari.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari
- trifit 4y agoYes, interesting learnt something new about my own culture today! Apple has called it Hindi and they’ve got dictation to Devanagari which is super responsive and accurate - a pleasant surprise.
- schoen 4y agoHindi might be an appropriate term if they're doing speech-to-text or text-to-speech or machine translation (because there are things there that will be specific to the individual spoken language variety, even involving distinguishing Hindi and Urdu for some purposes). They could also, for example, have support for Nepali, which is also normally written in the same alphabet but is definitely a different language from Hindi. In that case the language support would be different at a software level, like the vocabulary and/or grammatical patterns that the speech-to-text system is trying to recognize. The problem (whether for a computer or a human being!) of figuring out what language something is actually written in can be tricky when many languages use identical or related scripts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Language_recognition_chart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Language_recognition...