This is the text of an advert from the Indian Express, May 21, 2005:
Partner the nation on the road to IT empowerment.
The Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India's mission is to proliferate the use of Indian languages on computers, to overcome language barriers that restrict the nation's path to knowledge and development.
To give an impetus to the movement, the DIT invites individuals, public, private agencies and academic institutions to participate in a national initiative in public-private partnership to launch and distribute applications, tools, utilities and products developed for Indian language computing through a campaign spearheaded by the DIT with the Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
We invite you to join us for a discussion about the tools, technologies or resources you can offer for any of the 22 official Indian languages.
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* Fonts-True Type Fonts and Open Type Fonts * Keyboard Drivers * Font Encoding Converters * Storage Code Converters * Open Office (Word Processor) * Presentation Tool * Drawing Tool * Spreadsheet * Browser * E-mail client * OCRs Optical Character REcognition * Spell Checker * Dictionary * Thesaurus * Keyboard Typing Tutor * Language Learning Tool * TTS- Text To Speech System * ASR Automatic Speech Recognition * Corpora -- Suitable for the developer community * Machine Assisted Translation System * Braile utilities and others.
The tools and fonts will be consolidated in a CD for free distribution in a public release function, starting with Hindi, in the next few weeks. A response by May 30, 2005 will therefore be appreciated.
Unveil a new chapter of knowledge-sharing across language and cultural barriers.
Please respond to us at indianlanguages@cdac.in and register with details soon at http://www.ildc.in or http://www.ildc.gov.in
Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing A Scientific Society of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt of India Pune University Campus, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007 http://www.cdac.in Tel +91-20-2569 4000 01/02/03 Fax +91-20-2560 4059
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