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


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