Speech recognition software helps Tibetans communicate better

CHENGDU: When away from home, Gerong, who speaks only Kamba Tibetan, a Tibetan dialect, often found himself in awkward situations where few people could understand him.

This month, however, when the 50-year-old Tibetan from Garze prefecture in Sichuan province visited a hospital in the provincial capital of Chengdu, he communicated smoothly with a Mandarin-speaking doctor about his illness.