[liberationtech] Verification of Speak2Tweet Locales?

[Laila Shereen Sakr]

You are right on, Jillian!  R-Shief is currently developing dialect detection software in Arabic. We hope to collaborate more with these guys who have been doing it for a while: http://www.detectdialect.com/about/


On Nov 30, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Jillian C. York wrote:

> You might also consider finding someone to analyze dialect... 
> 
> (listening to them this morning, a Syrian friend claims only one of them was from Syria, but I don't know what his rationale was).
> 
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Ben Connors <benjconnors at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Washington Post Journalist here with a verification question. 
> We're looking to do a little blogging on Speak 2 Tweet and Syria, but we want at least some layer of proof that the calls are coming from within the country. I'm fairly tech savvy but at a loss, as to how/whether that can be done. 
> 
> Would appreciate your help amplifying these voices. 
> 
> Best,
> Ben Connors
> 
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