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  2. Master of ceremonies - Wikipedia

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    A master of ceremonies, abbreviated MC or emcee, is the official host of a ceremony, staged event, conference, convention, or similar performance.. The term is earliest documented in the Catholic Church since the 5th century, where the master of ceremonies is an official of the Papal Court responsible for the proper and smooth conduct of the elaborate rituals involving the pope and the sacred ...

  3. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  4. Tesseract (software) - Wikipedia

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    Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. [5] It is free software, released under the Apache License. [1] [6] [7] Originally developed by Hewlett-Packard as proprietary software in the 1980s, it was released as open source in 2005 and development was sponsored by Google in 2006.

  5. Battle of the Brains (Philippine game show) - Wikipedia

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    July 18, 1992. (1992-07-18) [3] –. July 14, 2001. (2001-07-14) Battle of the Brains is a Philippine quiz show [2] that aired on RPN and PTV from July 18, 1992 to July 14, 2001. Considered one of the most culturally influential locally produced shows of the 1990s, [1] Battle of the Brains was open to all elementary, high school and college ...

  6. Quikscript - Wikipedia

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    The Quikscript text reads, "This is the way to do it." Quikscript (also known as the Read Alphabet[1] and Second Shaw) is an alphabet which is intended as a replacement for traditional English orthography with the Latin alphabet. It is a compact phonemic orthography, designed to be comfortably and quickly written.

  7. Ronald Kingsley Read - Wikipedia

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    The Shaw Alphabet, Quickscript, and Readspel, printed by Read's daughter Mavis Mottram. Ronald Kingsley Read (19 February 1887 – February 1975) was one of four contestants chosen to share the prize money for the design of the Shavian alphabet, a completely new alphabet intended for the writing of English. He was later appointed sole ...

  8. Timeline of speech and voice recognition - Wikipedia

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    Speech recognition is at an early stage of development. Specialized devices can recognize few words and accuracy is not very high. [1] 1971–1987. Speech recognition rapidly improves, although the technology is still not commercially available. [1] 1987–2014. Speech recognition continues to improve, becomes widely available commercially, and ...

  9. Management Communication Quarterly - Wikipedia

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    Management Communication Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of communication studies pertaining to management and organizational communication. The editor-in-chief is Rebecca Meisenbach ( University of Missouri ). It was established in 1987 and is published by SAGE Publications .