On Monday 11 September 2006 03:21 pm, krishnakant Mane wrote: > most important factor, > now since we know that openoffice and things like that can work on > regional languages (can some one give me more info on that). > it will be more effective when we talk about accessibility.
http://blogs.sun.com/korn/date/20051113 Then there is Sphinx for speech recognition. http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/sphinx4/ > I am posting a new thread and expect particularly roni, jtd, > Dinesh shah and all other interested to respond. > it will be about a campain to promote linux in the rural areas with > regional language support. there are already projects going on at sarovar.org and IIT Chennai. Afaik Tamil, Gurmukhi, Hindi, Gujarati, Oriya, Assamese are already fully supported. Also a project known as Indic computing which has a distro too. http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/ > look forward for that email. > mean while, I will like to know as to how much development has > taken place in festival voice synthesizer in regional languages. Spanish. Festival and friends support building of the neccessary diphone sets and ronunciation rules to incorporate new languages. However this is a non trivial task. > if a substantially good work has been done, then we may as well > take this a point while making k desktop accessible. All the tools are there to do the job. Just that someone has to sit and do it. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
