Does India need its own vernacular internet?

Re:Does India need its own vernacular internet? by partycoder on Friday December 16, 2016 @07:05AM (#13192684)

English is one of the official languages in India for historic reasons. The number of English speakers in India surpasses the population of the United Kingdom.

Now, the field of automated translation is making enormous progress lately. I think eventually whatever the gaps in understanding are, will eventually be solved.

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Re:Does India need its own vernacular internet? by neutralid on Friday December 16, 2016 @07:29AM (#13192781)

Google search across languages would be amazing, e.g., accessing old scholarly research written in a native tongue. Wonder what the underlying structure of the neural network is for translations between all languages:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/googles-new-multilingual-neural-ma...

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Re:Does India need its own vernacular internet? by amitsy on Friday December 16, 2016 @07:30AM (#13192785)

Agree with the fact that automated translation is making progress but not fast enough. It is very hard to understand context still. The efforts are being to made to bring these 500 million users online now, and an english internet is being shoved on them.

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