{"id":971,"date":"2011-09-04T20:39:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T20:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=971"},"modified":"2011-09-04T20:54:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T20:54:44","slug":"phraselator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Phraselator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'>I have been out walking in the woods lately &#8211; really long walks. \u00a0I load up my mobile with some podcasts for my treks and recently had some familiar voices pass through my headphones. \u00a0Freelance journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/philippemorin.wordpress.com\/about-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Philippe Morin<\/a> in Inuvik, Northwest Territories put together a story for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/spark\/2011\/03\/spark-142-march-27-30-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBC Spark <\/a>back in March 2011 about the use of weatherproof, handheld military translation devices called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phraselator\" target=\"_blank\">Phraselators<\/a>\u00a0and how they are being used to assist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inuvialuk_language\" target=\"_blank\">Inuvialuktun\u00a0language<\/a>\u00a0education in the Canadian High Arctic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=409\" target=\"_blank\">As I have mentioned before<\/a>, I spent 4 wonderful years as a community school administrator and teacher in Aklavik, NWT. \u00a0I often reflect and remember the people I had the good fortune of living and working beside. \u00a0I landed in Aklavik just before Nunavut became a new Canadian territory and just as the federal government became involved in funding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nunatsiaqonline.ca\/stories\/article\/ardicom_digital_now_open_for_business\/\" target=\"_blank\">initiatives to bring internet connectivity to the Arctic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an educator with a background in programming, I became the network\/systems administrator for the school and was tapped for work with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ece.gov.nt.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">NWT Ministry of Education, Culture, and Employment<\/a> to explore and develop curricula for this newly arrived medium. \u00a0It was an exciting time to live and work in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the voices in this interview are of people I worked with &#8211; it was so good to hear their voices again.<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cbc_report_machinetranslation.mp3]\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cbc_report_machinetranslation.mp3  \" target=\"_blank\">Arctic Translation [MP3]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been out walking in the woods lately &#8211; really long walks. \u00a0I load up my mobile with some podcasts for my treks and recently had some familiar voices pass through my headphones. \u00a0Freelance journalist Philippe Morin in Inuvik, Northwest Territories put together a story for CBC Spark back in March 2011 about the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,30],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-work","tag-media","tag-mobile","h-entry","hentry","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}