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diacritic

A small mark added to a letter that changes its pronunciation, such as an acute accent (á), a grave accent (à) and a cedilla (ç).

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The diacritics help the speech recognition software because it helps give the exact meaning, thus giving it a high level of accuracy.

Pulling down the language barrier

placing diacritics, is its educational and cultural aspect.

Harakat app launches in Dubai

Barbier (it's a pity about the mistakes in Czech diacritics, however), is definitely captivating.

Antonin Dvorak String Quartets Op. 34 & Op. 106

1 (Winter 1981): 34-56; Teresa Heffernan, "Bovine Anxieties, Virgin Births, and the Secret of Life," Cultural Critique 53 (Winter 2003): 116-33; Frances Ferguson, "The Nuclear Sublime," Diacritics 14, no.

Mediating monstrosity: media, information, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The non-uniform use of diacritics is rather surprising, however, and at times confusing.

Salma K. Jayyusi (General Editor); Renata Holod, Attilio Petruccioli, and Andre Raymond (Special Editors). The City in the Islamic World

13), proves that the scribe who wrote these words was aware that <CC> digraphs could also serve as diacritics for vowels.

Reduplication of consonant graphemes in The Ormlum in the light of Late Old English scribal evidence

CS6 also offers greater control over Arabic text, with two new fonts and capabilities to help designers better manage the position of diacritics.

Adobe to demonstrate Creative Suite 6

Yoruba is a tonal language that employs the use of a combination of diacritics and Roman alphabets to make up for the full representation of the entire Yoruba alphabets on any keyboard.

A dictionary-based Integrated Development Environment for programming Java in an indigenous Nigerian language

4) Maren Morph: Maren Morph automatically analyses a given Arabic word and displays possible analyses with corresponding diacritics for each analysis.

'Microsoft Afkar' to help Arab net browsers

It is great for correctly entering people's names and address with all the correct diacritics etc.

Virtual Keyboards for Over 1,000 Languages - Keyman Desktop

As noted in the 'Guide to Pronunciation', W3 includes a number of diacritics which accompany [e] in order to distinguish between various types of schwa, e.

Special words

Thomas' Cynddylan on a Tractor for my GCSEs - and the technicalities like consonant mutations, grammatical genders and diacritics make me shiver.