While the users of some of the dominant resource-rich languages are reaping the benefits of technology every day, this revolution has bypassed most of the languages of the world. In the data-hungry world of technology development, over 5000 languages have no resources to develop technology in them. Computational linguistics researcher, Kalika Bali, talks of how innovative methodologies in creating language and speech technology systems can positively impact the under served language communities around the globe.
