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Colour-blind shaping of light

The propagation of light is always dependent on the colour of the light, yet researchers at the NLC have shown that it is possible to control light in a manner that is independent of its colour (wavelength) [Optics Letters vol. 37, pp. 49 (2012)]. This surprising result is expected to impact on techniques to encode information in the colour of the light (e.g., wavelength multiplexing in optical fibres) and in high-precision manufacturing with broad wavelength femtosecond lasers.

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Woefzela: An open-source platform for ASR data collection in the developing world

Building databases of speech audio files and text transcriptions for under-resourced languages plays a pivotal role in developing speech technologies for these languages. This paper describes an open-source tool for devices running the Android operating system to facilitate the efficient collection and quality control of speech data for automatic speech recognition system development.

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