http://www.llaisdy.com/blog The dairy diary Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:20:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This blog is now closed. From now on I shall be posting at llaisdy.wordpress.com (better spam handling, stats; stops me obsessing about Wordpress vs Django). I shall also be sprucing up the most important posts from here and moving them over (e.g. posts on Welsh grammar, HTK, Android, etc.). I don't ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/11/16/closed-moving/ Press release from Nuance: Nuance Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Nokia, Spanning Advanced Input Technologies and Open Development Framework And related piece in SpeechTech magazine: Nuance, Nokia Strike a Partnership Deal MocoNews has an interesting piece about it: Nokia Picks Nuance For Speech Recognition And More; Will Open Up Technologies To Developers What will this all mean ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/10/15/nuance-to-team-up-with-nokia/ T-Mobile have just launched the first Android phone, the G1, and Android have announced the "1.0" release of the Android SDK. Speech technology is conspicuously absent from the package index, and there's no sign anywhere that it'll be included anytime soon, or late. http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/09/24/nice-phone-shame-about-the-speech-rec/ After many years of devoted service, my main development machine (a Thinkpad A31p) has suddenly gone kaput. I have ordered my new machine which is an Apple MacBook Pro. I've been saying to myself (and to anyone in earshot) that the next machine I buy would be a Mac. ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/08/13/brave-new-world/ Contents Rhaglith Ffurfiau cymariaethol Ffurfiau rheolaidd Ffurfiau afreolaidd Ansoddeiriau heb gysefin Ansoddeiriau diffygiol (PWT 4.113) Ansoddeiriau deillir o enwau (PWT 4.114) Defnydd Cymhariaeth ymadroddol Cyfeiriadau Rhaglith Mae pedwar fath o ansoddair cymariaethol: cysefin, cyfartal, cymharol, ac eithafol. Er enghraifft: Mae'r ffurf gysefin y bôn neu'r ffurf gyffredinol (h.y., gwrywaidd). Defnyddir y ffurf gysefin i lunio’r ffurfiau eraill (h.y., cyfartal, cymharol, ac ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/07/27/ansoddeiriau-cymariaethol/ News just in yesterday. Report at Reuters. Symbian Foundation website. There's a pie chart in yesterday's FT showing smartphone operating system market share. Here it is again via Google's Chart API. Nokia intends to open source all of the Symbian code by 2010. This will include S60, UIQ, and MOAP. Earlier this month ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/06/26/nokia-buys-symbian-forms-symbian-foundation/ Contents Introduction Methods overview Methods in detail Conclusion References Introduction Emacs provides 25 input methods for Chinese. Although each input method has its own describe-input-method page, these pages can be rather terse. There is also no overview or comparison between the different input-methods, neither have I been able to find one on the web. Here I ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/06/24/chinese-input-methods-for-emacs/ Another anthem. This one is as "Russian" as the other one was "French". ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/06/23/%d0%b2%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b0%d1%81-%d0%bf%d1%82%d0%b8%d1%86%d0%b0-%d1%81%d1%87%d0%b0%d1%81%d1%82%d1%8c%d1%8f/ My distro is Debian. My window manager is OpenBox. My editor is Emacs. My blog should look like this or that. And of course it should be based on Django, not Wordpress. Administrative Debris Minimal http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/06/18/blog-envy/ Mae nifer o ansoddeiriau sy'n cytuno efo rhif eu henw. Gellir eu dosbarthu mewn dau fath: ansoddeiriau sy'n affeithio eu llafarog, ac ansoddeiriau sy'n ychwanegu terfyniad. Ansoddeiriau sy'n affeithio eu llafarog Dosbarth caeëdig yw hwn, efo naw ansoddair: Newid Cyff. Lluosog Saesneg a->ai amddifad amddifaid destitute arall eraill other bychan bychain little cyfan cyfain whole ifanc ifainc young llydan llydain wide truan truain wretch a->y cadarn cedyrn firm caled celyd hard Sylwch: er bod prif gyfnewid yn y sillaf olaf, mae llafariad obennol yn cael ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/06/14/ansoddeiriau-lluosog/