LangNet Weekly Roundup — July 20, 2018
News and updates from the LangNet Team and Community
LangNet at Beyond Blocks in Seoul 🇰🇷
This week we attended Beyond Blocks— the flagship event of Blockchain Week in Seoul, Korea. It was an amazing opportunity to network with partners, investors, and friends. LangNet was invited to the 20th floor suite to meet with strategic partners and the most prominent projects in the market these days.
Blockchain IL Conference in Shanghai 🇨🇳
This week was full of great meetings and events where we got to meet with people doing amazing projects in the blockchain space, and Shanghai was no different. At the event, we pitched and discussed LangNet’s strategy for Mapping the Human Language Protocol.
Crypto Shark Tank to feature LangNet 📺
LangNet CEO, Rob Lyu, was invited to take part in an interview for Crypto Shark Tank, which is an online TV series that takes its inspiration from the reality TV show, Shark Tank, where aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to investors who decide for or against investing in them. We will make an announcement when the interview goes on air next month.
LangNet signs MOU with Hanyang University 🤝
LangNet has signed an MOU with Hanyang University’s ASAP Lab (Acoustics, Speech, Audio Signal Processing). The lab has already purchased voice datasets from LangNet’s repository, and we are currently discussing several ways to collaborate on research and development.
🇫🇷 France wins World Cup Tournament 🥅~~⚽🏃 🏆
Congrats to France for lifting the World Cup (twice) 😆. We want to thank everyone for their participation and support in making this a successful data crowdsourcing campaign.
LangNet’s goal is to build the world’s largest repository of voice data in 50 languages. The tournament and accompanying voice data campaigns showed us what is possible, and has given us valuable insights to move forward.
We will be back with new voice data campaigns soon! Until then, record sentences in the Reach for the Stars 🌠 campaign to earn LANG.
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