yes, rajasthani language uses devnagri letters. But if there are many hindi TTS available, why it is right to develop seprate rajasthani TTS.
On 3/31/15, Him Prasad Gautam <drishtibac...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <mukesh.jai...@gmail.com> 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 <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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