Diapozitiv 1

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EthnoCon
converging cultures
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INTRODUCTION
INTRO
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feeling
communicated
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THE TEAM
TEAM
FERI, University of Maribor SLOVENIA
MENTOR
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Espeak

• Allows you to communicate with other EthnoCon
  users
• video transfer
• audio transfer
• text transfer
• Challenges boundaries between users through
• Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis
• Simultaneous Translation of the communication
  process
• Subtitling
• Translation of photographed documents

Espeak
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Espeak
Behind the scenes of Espeak
Espeak
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Epicto

• Universal form of communication
• Language Independent!
• Available in online and offline mode

Epicto
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Econverge

• Find people by interest, location, medical data,
  etc.
• Several levels of contact attribute availability
• Build your own social network of contacts

Econverge
Econverge Network
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Econverge
Econverge Network
Econverge
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Enavigate

• Location retrieved via GPS/Econverge
• Pinpoints location of
• yourself
• hotels, restaurants
• museums, etc.
• other EthnoCon contacts

Enavigate
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Enavigate
Enavigate Screenshot
Enavigate
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Ecultures

• Tutorials about cultures
• Video demonstrations
• Important information
• General data
• Available on
• PC
• Pocket PC
• Helps you avoid awkward situations

Ecultures
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Future Work

• Integration with other conversation servers
• Epicto
• database extension
• improved grammar conversion
• Ecultures
• database extension
• Espeak
• improved noise reduction

Future Work
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CONCLUSION

• EthnoCon takes you beyond
• Language bounaries
• both speech and text
• Cultural boundaries
• Geographical boundaries
• Social boundaries
• Visual boundaries
• Difficulties created by visual and hearing
  impairment

Conclusion
Discover the world the way it is meant to be
discovered!
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SPONSORS
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science
RSCM GRADBENI MATERIALI d.o.o.
Thanks for financial support.
David Vignoni (Icon King)
Thanks for releasing the awesome Nuvola icon
theme unter LGPL.
Libra News d.o.o.
Thanks to Samo nidaric for filming the video
material for the teaser.
Sponsors
Satchmo Jazz Club
Thanks for letting us use the club for some
scenes.
Greco d.o.o.
GREco
Thanks for providing the offices where we were
developing EthnoCon.
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Q A
Thank you for listening!
Q A