Google Translate and Bable Fish provide free machine translation of text from various languages. The Text-to-Speech Web site now allows you to hear how the text should be pronounced. Over two dozen languages are available. The Spanish options include Chilean, Mexican, Castilian and Argentine accents. English options are American, Indian, Irish, Australian, Scottish, and South African. These are machine translations so the voices are a bit robotic.
Text-to-Speech Translation
The Hanover Research Council has just released (August 2009) a report entitled “Academic Library of the Future.” From the cover:
In the following report, The Hanover Research Council investigates issues relevant to strategic planning for the “academic library of the future.” After providing an overview of key trends, we detail how the academic library is undergoing profound transformation with regard to new technologies, user expectations, library staff roles, space design, and ownership issues. The report concludes with examples of cost-effective innovations addressing a wide range of challenges and solutions at four different institutions.
InformáticaJurídica.com is a foreign law portal focusing mainly on Internet law, privacy, and intellectual property issues. It provides citations to statutes from hundreds of countries. It also posts selected full-text statutes and case law in the vernacular, principally from Latin American and European countries. The site also contains a bibliography of Spanish and English language secondary literature, a list of past and future conferences and meetings, and links (click on directorio). Site navigation is entirely in Spanish.
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