During the last ten years the problems connected with the spoken form of the Belarusian literary language functioning took the special topicality in the native linguistics. At numerous conferences and a number of scientific, popular scientific and publicistic editions addresses the problems of the modern phonetic processes, the moving forces and trends of pronunciation norms, the speech culture and etc. The obvious necessity has matured in drawing general conclusion of scientific achievements and in determination tendencies and prospects […]

How to engage business into the young people’s scientific research results? What kind of project can get a particular business sponsor interested in? The youth innovation forum “Science and business–2012”, held in the National Academy of Sciences, and where researchers from Belarus and the CIS countries gathered together, is aimed to ask these questions. Almost half of all hundred participants were with the concrete projects, ideas, suggestions. It is no secret that business-community is not keen to […]

Primarily the software had been built for visually impaired, but then a telephone robot for banks and public services appeared. Katerina Shibko reports about one of the hundred ideas for Belarus that was put to good effect. The young researchers of the Academy of Sciences succeeded in creation of the robot that can speak. Unfortunately, it does not enter into a dialogue – it meanwhile vocalizes the […]

It is much easier to deceive eyes than ears. When Yuri Hetsevich types a sentence “Мама мыла раму” (“Mother was cleaning the window frame”), and this phrase is immediately sounded by the “talking head” on the screen, our eyes agree: indeed, the facial gesture beyond the screen is absolutely precise. But our ears, however, are doubtful of intonation. When a large text passage is generated, the distinction between computer-generated and real speech is heard much stronger […]

March 20, Minsk. In the residence of the Republican non-governmental association named “The Frantsishak Skaryna Belarusian Language Society”, the presentation of Belarusian-language edition of the Road Traffic Regulations in Belarus took place. This edition underwent the expert review in the Yakub Kolas and Yanka Kupala Language and Literature Institution of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. This excellent reference book, nicely published in one edition of 200 copies, saw the light of day […]