Cognitive infocommunications systems extend our cognitive capabilities by providing fast infocommunications links to huge repositories of information produced by the cognitive activities of social communities. English Wikipedia has over 5 million articles that can be accessed instantly and are updated constantly by a global community. But does this mean that small language communities will need to use English in order to extend their cognitive capabilities? The DigiSami project supports the development of language technology tools and digital linguistic resources that will help the revitalisation of small Fenno-Ugric languages. The project focuses on North Sami, the most widely-spoken Sami language, and supports work on speech recognition and speech synthesis for North Sami. It is developing a Sami-speaking robot system, SamiTalk, which uses Sami Wikipedia as its source of information and can be considered to be a CogInfoCom channel.
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