how to install e speak and configure them? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saurabh Malav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 12:03 AM Subject: Re: [AI] After BPO & KPO, now comes PP
> There are some issues while using eSpeak with Jaws for hindi language. > Some > are listed below: > > 1. Jaws skips some words while reading hindi document. > 2. eSpeak is using US-English accent for hindi language too. Actually in > the > background eSpeak first converts hindi text into roman english text then > these converted english is actually spoken by eSpeak for hindi text. Hence > the accent for both english and hindi voices are same. However the > response > of eSpeak is good. > 3. Jaws doesn't properly break hindi document while reading by sentence. > Because in hindi language sentence is broken by using "purna viram" which > Jaws doesn't recognize. > > Regards, > Saurabh Malav > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dinesh Kaushal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 12:45 PM > Subject: Re: [AI] After BPO & KPO, now comes PP > > >> ...drunsinha >> >> Currently I am not working for hindi language softwares, but I got to >> know >> that a synthesiser called ESpeak can be used to speak hindi with jaws. >> >> Otherwise better option still is to use safa for hindi, and these days it >> is >> very stable. >> >> For more details about safa, contact NAB delhi. >> >> Regards >> Dinesh Kaushal >> >> blog at >> dineshkaushal.blogspot.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dr.u.n.sinha >> narain >> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:30 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [AI] After BPO & KPO, now comes PP >> >> dear dinesh, >> you have told abot india's p.p.o. can you tell me if there are chances to >> add hindi in jfw. if so, how? >> ...drunsinha >> >> On 6/29/07, Dinesh Kaushal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> After BPO & KPO, now comes PPO >>> June 28, 2007 >>> >>> You have heard about BPO (business process outsourcing) & KPO >>> (knowledge process outsourcing), but it's time now to add a new word >>> to your >>> vocabulary: PPO. >>> >>> Coined by Alok Aggarwal, chairman of Evalueserve Inc, PPO means >>> person-to-person outsourcing. The US-based Aggarwal, who is the >>> co-founder of the global research and analytics services firm, says >>> offshoring is now beginning to go mainstream and is touching the upper >>> class and working class alike. >>> >>> "This is very reminiscent of 1991-92 when manufacturing in China and >>> other low-wage countries began to impact the lives of the rich and the >>> not-so-rich in developed countries," he says. >>> >>> Here's how: small offices, home businesses and even individuals are >>> utilizing PPO services everyday through various means such as online >>> tutoring and home & landscape design services. Even invitation cards >>> for weddings and other parties, personal assistant secretarial >>> services like scheduling appointments and maintaining calendars are >>> now being outsourced. >>> >>> Many of these professionals work from their homes with a broadband >>> connection and given the low overhead, vendors and freelancers can >>> charge fairly low rates. >>> >>> A few companies, such as Future Net (a subsidiary of the Alaphuza, >>> India-based Future Groups) are also experimenting with providing >>> ancillary and concierge services from low-wage countries. >>> >>> In their model, the end-client registers on their website and agrees >>> on a price. Future Net then provides property deals for customers or >>> for their family members and friends. Other services would include >>> payments made to utility service agencies, educational or other >>> institutions; and purchase of simple items such as movie tickets, >>> personal computers, and electronics equipment. >>> >>> Apart from online tutoring, for instance, companies such as >>> Transtutors, Career Launcher, Educomp Datamatics, and Tutor Vista also >>> offer one-on-one "live" >>> homework assistance over the web and provide essay-writing guidance >>> and help with educational content. Most Indian tutors charge between >>> $8 and $40 per hour - a pittance by US standards. >>> >>> If you thought the PPO market is too small and hence insignificant, >>> Aggarwal has an answer. Individual contracts are often of low value - >>> between $100 and $5,000 - but since the number of end consumers and >>> small businesses is enormous, the total addressable market in the US >>> alone easily exceeds $20 billion. >>> >>> Evalueserve's research and analysis shows that between April 2006 and >>> March 2007, the revenue from this sector was more than $250 million >>> and it is likely to grow to over $2 billion by 2015 - a cumulative >>> annual growth rate of around 26 per cent. The growth rate, Aggarwal >>> says, is likely to be much more in the future as many of these PPO >>> offshoring trends are at the beginning of their lifecycles. >>> >>> According to Evalueserve, PPO services follow two business models: the >>> direct interaction model where the individual client signs a contract >>> directly with a vendor in a low-wage country, whose employees (tutors, >>> admin etc) work on a full-time or a part-time basis, or as >>> sub-contractors. >>> >>> Since these contracts are of low monetary value, the individual client >>> cannot usually travel to the offshore location or perform a costly >>> due-diligence process, and is therefore exposed to some risk. >>> >>> Although payments can be made through cheques or wire transfers, since >>> the cost of individual projects is fairly low, clients usually pay the >>> vendors with credit cards, which can help offset some of this risk. >>> >>> The second is the online marketplace model where the vendors providing >>> PPO services enrol in an online marketplace by paying a monthly >>> subscription fee plus a fixed percentage of the revenue if they win >>> the project through this marketplace. So, when an individual client >>> posts requirements for a new project to be conducted on the online >>> marketplace, the marketplace communicates these opportunities to the >>> selected vendors and freelancers and requests proposals to be >>> delivered to the client. >>> >>> The client then awards the work to the appropriate vendor depending on >>> price (which may be on a per hour or a fixed cost basis), delivery >>> time and a quality score provided by other clients who have been >>> served by this vendor. >>> >>> In this model, the online marketplace typically earns between 5 per >>> cent and >>> 15 per cent of the contract price in return for an assurance of a >>> minimum service level from the vendor, thereby reducing the risk for >>> the client. >>> >>> Evalueserve's research estimates that there are currently more than 90 >>> online marketplaces on the World Wide Web and projects that they have >>> involve over 500,000 vendors and freelance professionals who are >>> providing these services from low-wage countries. >>> >>> Some of the prominent online marketplaces are Guru.com (the largest >>> marketplace with more than 625,000 registered vendors and freelance >>> professionals), California-based Elance.com, Florida-based >>> RentACoder.com and GetAFreeelancer.com, owned by Sweden-based >>> Innovateit. >>> >>> http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/jun/28bpo.htm >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe send a message to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. >>> >>> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >>> please visit the list home page at >>> >>> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org >>> .in >>> >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with >> the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please >> visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. 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