SALT Examples

SALT is increasingly a part of our every-day lives.

Here are some examples:

• Spell checkers and grammar checkers
• Voice-dial on your mobile phone
• Voice-activated car radio
• Automatic plagiarism detectors
• Voice enabled websites and word processors for visually impaired users
• Websites with roll-over vocabularies to aid language learners
• Software that scans and converts a printed document into a word processor compatible file
• Software that extracts all specialized terminology from a document
• Websites that offer approximate translation of text from one language to another
• Handheld devices that recognize the user’s handwriting
• Software that allows users with a speech impediment to communicate using a computerized voice
• Automatic telephone booking services with simple speech recognition
• Cameras that automatically take a picture when the subject smiles
• Visual thesauruses
  

SALT is also widely used as research and development tools that play an important part in the creation of products such as the above.