Hello,
1. I am Debdutto Chakraborty, currently studying in pre-final year
B.Tech in Computer Science and engineering from Asansol Engineering
College. Also, I'm new to this world of open source although I've been
using Ubuntu & various other Open Sourced software por past 3-4 years, I
had no idea that it was such a huge thing.
2. I was going through the ideas page and the following two project
ideas really struck me:
- *Design and development of a print ready OpenType font for Bengali*:
Being a Bengali myself, a;though i could speak bengali but I learned to
read/write the language quite later in life. Also I'm familiar with font
designing techniques as i created a font of my own handwriting using a
technique given long back in Digit magazine. Although there might be
different tools at work here, but I'm known to be highly adaptive in such
cases.
- *Add** a language model for speech recognition software for Bengali
language*: For people like me, who can speak/read fluent Bengali but
stutter while writing, this kind of software will a boon. Although I'm not
familiar with how speech recognition actually works or how it is built, I'm
researching/googling everything I can find on the web right now. Also, any
help from Ankur India will be great
1. Since I'm in college now, I've classes. Still, i will be able to
provide around 8-10 hours of work every day. If more time is needed I'm
always ready to cough up some extra work-hours.
2. Speaking of commitments I only have my college classes & nothing
else.
3. I've arranged for a unlimited Internet connection, and I'll always
be on-line on the IRC channels. Therefore, a mentor's presence virtually
will be of no hindrance. We will be able to communicate via mails, IRC,
mailing-lists.
4. Yes, I'm comfortable in English.
Yours Sincerely,
Debdutto Chakraborty
Mail: [email protected]
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IRC: _joy
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