On 19 Nov 2012, at 09:26, Caitlin Marinelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was based in Chennai until two weeks ago - when I shifted to Mumbai. > But I'll be frequenting Chennai on a regular basis and think it would > be great to re-active the Silk Chapter. Lots of great stuff going on > in that city. > Mumbai's great fun - there's a lot more happening so you'll really enjoy it. I think the quality of life overall is better in Chennai though, especially with a family. Let us know when you're back and we'll try and organise a silk meet around it. Chandru: I thought you lived in Bristol or Brighton or something? Suresh/Chandru: Silk meet in a couple of weeks or so? Perhaps a Friday evening? > Sankarshan gave a pretty good explanation of what the technology does. > I'm sure you've heard of Siri on the iPhone, right? Well, that's > English language speech recognition. My company has been doing joint > R&D with IIT Madras in order to develop that in 14 Indian languages > and several hundred dialects. And rather than putting the technology > on the device, we combine it with IVR and GPRS to build applications Sounds really groundbreaking but massive in scope - especially if you're doing it for so many different languages.. Badri
