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On 3/31/15, avinash shahi <shahi88avin...@gmail.com> 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > 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. 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