Google Translate Text-to-Speech Feature Now Supports 34 Languages, including Latvian. The speaker unfortunately still sounds like a robot who is talking under water.
Google Translate Teksta-runas funkcija tagad atbalsta 34 valodas, tai skaitā latviešu valodā. Runātājs diemžēl joprojām izklausās kā robots, kurš runā zem ūdens.
At this page, click on the audio translation for a sample of the above translated text.
You still can not replace human translators but Google is getting better at this.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Bring BEREC -- the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications -- to Riga, Latvia
In
Welcome to Latvia - Its Time to Bring the EU to Riga
Ojārs Kalniņš, Director of the Latvian Institute,
makes a case to bring BEREC,
the „Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications”,
to Riga, Latvia.
Welcome to Latvia - Its Time to Bring the EU to Riga
Ojārs Kalniņš, Director of the Latvian Institute,
makes a case to bring BEREC,
the „Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications”,
to Riga, Latvia.
Vietas.lv (Vietas = Places viz. Locations) is an Essential Travel Guide Portal to Latvia
Vietas -- which is a word in Latvian which means "Places viz. Locations" -- is in our opinion one the best travel guide portals to Latvia for its detail of local places. Unfortunately, the English-language registration does not work properly the last time we tried it (today, May 26, 2010) -- which is NOT really essential at all, just annoying. You can without registering still search for locations in Latvia and then switch to an English translation of the page you are looking at.
Vietas is also a bit tricky to use. If you enter just Lejasciems as your search word, for example, you get only 6 objects shown, but if you enter Lejasciema par. (= Parish of Lejasciems) then you get 31 objects, but only if you have the radio button "Objects"selected in the right upper hand corner. No outsider is going to find that second essential link so that Vietas.lv must improve its search algorithm so that the simple entry of Lejasciems also gives not only the town but the surrounding parish objects. Otherwise, visitors will not find some of the most interesting objects in any area.
See
Vietas.lv - Travel Guide of Latvia, Map of Latvia, - towns, districts, travel places, destinations, events, vacation, descriptions, pictures, discussions, articles, commercials and more (Vietas.lv - Latvijas ceļvedis, Latvijas karte, pilsētas, rajoni, tūrisma un citi interesanti objekti, pasākumi)
Vietas is also a bit tricky to use. If you enter just Lejasciems as your search word, for example, you get only 6 objects shown, but if you enter Lejasciema par. (= Parish of Lejasciems) then you get 31 objects, but only if you have the radio button "Objects"selected in the right upper hand corner. No outsider is going to find that second essential link so that Vietas.lv must improve its search algorithm so that the simple entry of Lejasciems also gives not only the town but the surrounding parish objects. Otherwise, visitors will not find some of the most interesting objects in any area.
See
Vietas.lv - Travel Guide of Latvia, Map of Latvia, - towns, districts, travel places, destinations, events, vacation, descriptions, pictures, discussions, articles, commercials and more (Vietas.lv - Latvijas ceļvedis, Latvijas karte, pilsētas, rajoni, tūrisma un citi interesanti objekti, pasākumi)
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Riga Latvia EU Capital of Culture in Europe in 2014
Valentina Pop writes at EUobserver:
EUobserver / Riga says it can handle expense of being EU Capital of Culture
EUobserver / Riga says it can handle expense of being EU Capital of Culture
"Despite slashed budgets and economic woes, Latvia's capital, Riga, is confident of being able to raise the necessary funding for a series of cultural events in 2014, when it is due to become the European capital of culture, its mayor told this website."
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Centuries-Old Shipwrecks Found in Baltic Sea : Discovery News
Centuries-Old Shipwrecks Found in Baltic Sea : Discovery News, March 9, 2010:
"A gas company building an underwater pipeline stumbled upon several wrecks, some dating back 800 years."
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