Hi Mukesh, Can you brief in which the Rajasthani language is written. I think that it has no its own alphabets. Perhaps it uses Devanagari scripts. Is not it? If so, it can be adjusted for many Indian Languages which use devanagari letters.
On 3/31/15, mukesh jain <[email protected]> wrote: > Wouv! I can see my dreams fulfilled, to read the literature, that too, > in my native language? on computer independently? Come on, make it > fast! > > On 3/31/15, avinash shahi <[email protected]> wrote: >> Mandi IIT develops software to convert text into speech >> Will be useful for visually challenged, in public announcement systems >> Mandi IIT develops software to convert text into speech >> http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/mandi-iit-develops-software-to-convert-text-into-speech/60141.html >> Student Pulkit Sharma explains the Text-To-Speech project to Chief >> Minister Virbhadra Singh and Director Timothy A Gonsalves on the IIT >> campus at Kamand near Mandi during the second convocation held on >> March 15. A file photo >> >> Dushyant Singh Pundir >> >> Tribune News Service >> >> Mandi, March 29 >> The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here has developed a >> software to convert written text into speech. >> Pulkit Sharma, a PhD scholar, said the software, Text-To-Speech (TTS) >> systems, would be a revolutionary step for visually challenged people. >> It would enable them to use computers efficiently, as it would >> pronounce every word they would write, he said. >> "The system has numerous other applications. It can be used as a >> desktop assistant and can read out SMSs in mobile phone," he said, >> adding that the system could also be used in public announcement >> systems, to read directions and destination in a GPS device. >> Pulkit, who hails from Hamirpur district, has been working on the >> project under the guidance of Dr Anil Kumar Sao, Chairperson, School >> of Computing and Electrical Engineering, IIT-Mandi. >> Others helping him out in the project include Sarvesh, Nivedita, >> Priyanka and Manav. >> Dr Sao said the work on TTS systems was being carried out by a >> consortium of 12 institutes headed by Prof Hema A Murthy of >> IIT-Madras. >> The other institutes of the group include CDAC-Mumbai, >> CDAC-Thiruvananthapuram, CDAC-Kolkata, IIIT-Hyderabad, IISC-Banglore, >> IIT-Guwahati, SSNCE-Chennai, PESIT-Bangalore, DA-IICT-Gujarat, >> IIT-Kharagpur and IIT-Mandi. >> Dr Sao said each institute would build a TTS system for one Indian >> language using a common framework and the IIT-Mandi was working on >> developing a TTS system for Rajasthani language. >> "Although the synthesised voice using the current TTS systems is quite >> intelligible, but research work is being carried out to make the >> voices more natural and human-like," he said. >> Dr Sao said it was a unique project where researchers from 12 >> different Indian institutes had come together to develop TTS systems >> for 12 different Indian languages. >> It would largely help the visually challenged people, he said, >> adding: "If a visually challenged person wants to read news, the >> software will easily read it out if it is installed in his device." >> He said the project, which is sponsored by the Department of >> Electronics and Information Technology, was given to the institute in >> 2012 and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)-Pune >> was helping them out in evaluating the system. >> Pulkit said: "The TTS systems are classified into two categories: >> Unit Selection Based (USS) and Statistical Parametric Based (SPS). >> Voice synthesised using USS systems is more natural, but such systems >> require more memory to be stored thus cannot be used in devices with >> less memory (e.g. mobile phones)." >> IIT-Mandi was working on to reduce the memory required to store USS >> systems thus enabling the device with low memory to use them, he said. >> The TTS system would be handed over to the C-DAC, Pune, by the end of >> the year and the centre would make it available in the market at a >> very nominal price, he added. >> >> >> -- >> Avinash Shahi >> Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU >> >> >> >> Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility >> of >> mobile phones / Tabs on: >> http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >> >> Search for old postings at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> 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 >> >> >> Disclaimer: >> 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of >> the >> person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; >> >> 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the >> mails >> sent through this mailing list.. >> > > > -- > Regards, > Mukesh jain > Email: > [email protected] > [email protected] > Skype: mukeshjain211 > Mob: 09977165123 > "Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them > master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. " > > Helen Keller > > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > 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 > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > -- Him Prasad Gautam Kathmandu, Nepal Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
