Languages

How machines' speech recognition capability has been evolving

14 Apr 2013

In the rapidly developing technology of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), machines are "hearing" and understanding spoken language, and performing actions on verbal commands.

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Letters to the Editor, March 21, 2013

21 Mar 2013

I was naturally dismayed to read your reports about an attack on a child in Lantau by a Siberian husky, and I have the utmost sympathy for the child's family.

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Linguist discovers new papal pickle

10 Mar 2013

When scholar John Whelpton and his small band of Latin linguists sit down at their next meeting on Friday in Kowloon Tong, it won't exactly be a papal conclave, but it will examine a very thorny...

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Bilingual students more China-ready

17 Feb 2013

Wilson Chan, who worked in Shanghai for several years, had always wanted to send his three children to a bilingual school

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Hong Kong trails rival Singapore in students' English skills

3 Feb 2013

Many parents spare no efforts in brushing up their children's language skills - and not just in English. Demand for Putonghua teachers is soaring as China's clout in the global economy increases...

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The talk of the global village is ... in English

22 May 2012

The second president of the United States, John Adams, predicted in 1780 that English would be the 'most respectable language' in the world and the most read and spoken.

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Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

EU fails to adapt to borderless world

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Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Lessons to be learned from a return to English

Even with big changes under way in the structure of school education, the language of instruction remains a primary concern for many parents. This week, they have voted with their feet after a...

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Nearly half of high schools to teach in English

The number of secondary schools teaching in English in Hong Kong will almost double in September when the changes to language instruction policy take effect, according to school profiles released...

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Classroom reforms 'will raise English skills'

Allowing more schools to use English in the classroom will increase by half the number of junior secondary school students capable of learning in the language, education minister Michael Suen Ming...

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Education chief defends changes in school language policy

The education minister has defended much-criticised revisions to the medium-of-instruction policy, saying critics should not over-exaggerate the difficulties.

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Back to basics

At a recent symposium on the policy on the medium of instruction for secondary schools, Secretary for Education Michael Suen Ming-yeung announced that there would be a 'fine-tuning' of the...

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Schools may get to choose which language to use

Education chief points to easing of mother-tongue policy

Secondary schools could be given freedom to choose whether to teach in English or Chinese, the education secretary said...

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