MT as a walled garden Don’t get me wrong there is a lot of value in MT. And with advances in NMT there may be a point where certain types of translation reaches human quality without humans. But for now human quality requires humans as translators, reviewers, post-editors, or in […]
AI & ML
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A few examples of the coming shift in publishing can be seen swirling around two Ne(i)(a)ls. Neil Gaiman and Neal Stephenson are on the forefront of what I envision as the next step for authors in the ebook industry. Authors will take more control and profits from their own work, […]
Text-to-speech(TTS) is one of the experimental features added to the Kindle 2 and it caused a huge controversy. In this post I will discuss the controversy and examine some of the more innovative players in text-to-speech technology. Upon the release of the Kindle 2 the Author’s guild protested to Amazon […]
This was originally written in 2007. Though it does not directly discuss ereaders the relationship is clear. The article is slanted towards Mcgraw-Hill since that was my employer at the time I wrote this. Peripateticware or Mobile education Peripateticware is a name I’ve coined to identify products designed […]