| Speaker Name | Santhosh Thottingal |
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| Type | Talk | |
| Slides | Click to download | |
Developing Speech Enabled Applications For Indian Languages and Dhvani TTS |
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| Abstract | The objective of the talk is to introduce the development of speech enabled accessible desktop applications for visually challenged users. Speech enabled applications has many other use other than accessibility-like Audio books, entertainment, Kiosk, IVRs etc.. Talk will be focused on enabling accessibility on gtk based applications using ATK, and a discussion on Dhvani- The indian language Text to Speech system and its APIs[2]. During the talk, demo of sample programs/code will be shown. The project requires contributors from different languages. [1] http://live.gnome.org/GAP/AtkGuide [2] http://dhvani.sourceforge.net |
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| Pre-requisites | Beginner level knowledge on GUI programming or just programming in C or python | |
| Speaker Profile | Santhosh is a FOSS developer and activist from Kerala. He is project admin of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing. He contributes to the following FOSS projects in free time a) Dhvani - Indian Language Text to Speech system. lead developer and maintainer b) Swanalekha - Developer- Transliteration based Input Method for Malayalam-available in all distros now c) Aspell Malayalam-developer d) Contributes to L10N of Gnome, KDE, Debian e) Member- WWW-ML project f) Payyans- Ascii encoded data<->Unicode converter -developer g) Matrix screensaver in Indian language glyphs Santhosh is a winner of FOSS India Award 2008 by LFY magazine and NRCFOSS. In weekdays he is working as Technical Specialist in a leading IT company of India. | |
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