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.