• IBM, C-DAC Partner to Promote Hindi

    IBM, C-DAC Partner to Promote Hindi

    Techtree News Staff, Aug 17, 2007 1423 hrs IST

    "Shrutlekhan-Rajbhasha" is part of C-DAC's ongoing MANTRA-Rajbhasha project for ensuring a high level of accuracy in the translation of English to Hindi.

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Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and IBM India Research Laboratory have announced development of "Shrutlekhan-Rajbhasha", a Hindi speaker independent, continuous speech recognition system that uses IBM Desktop Hindi Speech Recognition technology.

"Shrutlekhan-Rajbhasha" is part of C-DAC's ongoing MANTRA-Rajbhasha project for ensuring a high level of accuracy in the translation of English to Hindi, in areas including administration, finance, agriculture, and small scale industry.

The MANTRA-Rajbhasha project is sponsored by the Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.

IBM's Desktop Hindi Speech Recognition technology understands and transcribes human speech with little use of keyboards, thereby helping people unfamiliar with computers or the Hindi language. Also as there are various keyboards in use for Indian languages, speech recognition eliminates the need to learn mapping of different keyboards.

IBM says the technology has been tried and tested for variations across a large number of speakers from different regions of the county. Meanwhile, C-DAC says it has collected a large amount of data from users across different states to capture variations in dialect. The system's spellchecker for Hindi has been built after taking into consideration all this data so as to make it more accurate.

"Shrutlekhan-Rajbhasha" has also been integrated with other user-friendly features like the ability to convert Unicode text into ISFOC fonts, etc.

Dr Daniel Dias, director of IBM India Research Laboratory, said, "Shrutlekhan-Rajbhasha has been developed by C-DAC for promoting the use of Hindi for official and other purposes, and is an example of how IBM speech recognition technology might be used to make people's lives easier."

Shri S Ramakrishnan, director general of C-DAC, said, "the coming together of IBM and C-DAC is a step forward towards enabling speech technologies to benefit a sizeable portion of the Indian population."

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(15) Comments
m k agrawal
,jaipur, on Apr 25, 2010 10:00 PM
i want to purchase shrutlekhan -rajbhasha software. kindly inform the price and source.
R K Sharma
,Mumbai, on Oct 27, 2009 12:04 PM
Want to down load software
sanjay
,kanpur, on Oct 07, 2008 09:21 AM
hindi rajbhasha vachantar software
sanjay
,kanpur, on Oct 07, 2008 09:09 AM
i need software
Subodh Kumar
,Ghaziabad-201011, on Aug 25, 2008 07:36 PM
Before spending Rs5400.00 to buy a full fledged Shrutlekhan program is it possible to have a trial version for a few days?
Rohit Goel
,Ghaziabad, on May 08, 2008 12:22 PM
Is there any software by which if we speak in Hindi & this will write in Hindi on our pc. can u provide me this software & if there such software what will be the cost of software & provide me more detail about this S/W
Basant Balani
,BIKANER, on Dec 03, 2007 07:33 PM
Increasing Burden of School Bags India had been a colony of Britain for more than two centuries. Although, we have become independent in terms of our own constitution, but still we are slave mentally and psychologically our attire is our own but the person within it is motivated by the British ideology. As we all know that today it is an era of cutthroat competition. So we can't deny the rapidly increasing importance of English language. At present English has become a global language. In the hour of liberalization, privatization and globalization English language has rooted firmly its footings in the mind of each and every citizen of the world. In order to be successful English has become necessary to be learned by all. English is not as simple as it appears to be become it is a complicated amixture of several European languages, such as- Greek, Latin, French, German, English etc. Thus it possesses approximately ten lack words. India is a developing country. Its population is more than 100 crore. Here we have lack o resources & production, so it has always been a challenge for us to educate all the citizens. Due to over population the competition is getting more complicated and horrible. As a matter of fact our competition is with the western countries where English is spoken in general. Therefore we, Indians being from rural and Hindi background, are quite unable to learn all these words. Though, we in no sphere of life, lag behind the Britishers but our main problem is of foreign language which is imposed not inculcated in our veins. I can claim that the Europeons will certainly face the same problem if Hindi is posed to them. Therefore, due to the increasing world over significance of English language we can't of avoid it. We have to learn it how to speak, how to write and how to make other people understand our feeling. Now the question that arises before us is what should be done to teach English to all the Indians in the simplest possible way? How can it be learnt by all? It seems next to impossible to learn ten lakh words for every Indian. So I am inclined to create a modified English named after Rajeev Gandhi, which will include about one lakh words and will also facilitate the Indians to interact with the foreigners in the easiest possible way. Reduction of words requires great consideration and strenuous efforts. We can drop out the undesired words, synonyms, undesired homonyms and homophones. I am determined to create an easily intelligible English, which will include our colloquial terms and the most essential words. As we see newspapers in English language are daily published across the country but very few people are able to read them and translate because the English used in these papers is complicated, vague and completely unintelligible for the common people. This way these newspapers remain beyond the reach of the billons of Indian. I think simple and easy English must be used in writing newspapers and magazines by doing so we will be able to reach the hearts of those people who are responsible to run bear and feed this country, until or unless we teach English to our frames, laborers and commoners, the vision 2020 of developed India will surely break down. Today we boast of the fastest growing economy of India but the question is that ?Is this economy able to provide bread to the needy ones?" No, money is getting accumulated in the bags of very few people who belong to the upper strata of the society and know the cruel ways how to exploit economically, culturally and sociably the innocent and ignorant people of this nation in the so called English fashion. Therefore in order to bring the farthest standing people into the mainstream of development we will have to teach them this Rajeev Gandhi English and students will learn it in play way method. Undoubtedly I can claim it will prove a boon for the general masses of this poor nation. It is a revolutionary step and will become a milestone in the history of human development. Written by: - Basant Balani Bikaner
dr rekha sethi
,delhi, on Dec 01, 2007 07:17 PM
i am interested to know more about this software. i teach in hindi deptt. of indraprastha college of delhi university
Dr.Baala Ramani
,Chennai, on Nov 18, 2007 02:02 PM
I have appeared for hindi prabod exam yesterday.my roll number is 12283 from chennai center.when will i get my results? Dr.Baala ramani
Arun Kumar Saxe
,Pune, on Nov 01, 2007 07:08 PM
Hi, I work in IBM & a native Hindi Speaker.. Really exited to know about this program.. Can you provide me th CD of the above S/W? Wish you the succes of the program..
brij mohan arya
,ernakulam, on Oct 09, 2007 11:11 AM
very good programme i go though a demo in Hydrabad rajbhasha sammelan on 4-5 oct. will u sent me a demo cd of shrutlakhan programme. if possible kindly provides me. after demo to my official v decide for puchaging. brij mohan arya pnb regional office market road. ernakulam. 682011
amil
,raipur, on Sep 24, 2007 07:32 PM
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Vedhandha Desig
,Tiruchchirappalli, on Aug 17, 2007 06:14 PM
Very Nice effort and initiation. The Shrutlekhan software costs Rs.5400 INR. The Information is late. I was wondering why many good articles and reviews lack the price value. It is a suggestion as an end user to techtree. But if you plan to continue in ur ways you are always at liberty to do so.
Desigan J
,Tiruchchirappalli, on Aug 17, 2007 06:42 PM
One Request, We expect an article on use of Indian Language in computer and various softwares.I am interested to see a article with contents like Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Indian Language Handwriting recognition, Typing, Spell Check, Conversion to unicode, Conversions from One Indian Language to another Indian Language, Web Chat, search, websites in indian language and popular softwares for typing in indian languages and desktop publishing.I understand the request will be heavy on you but if you bring out this you will definetly be continously crowned india no. 1 Technology Website.May be you can use these for reference purpose. www.bhashaindia.com, www.rajbasha.nic.in/gov.in, HP Labs, CDAC soft like leapoffice, Madhyam typing tool,Kalnayak, krutidev,Mangal, ILDC.nic.in - CDs released by Dayanidhi Maran,Nokia, Motorola, Reliance Hindi initiative,Symbian v9.3, Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool, Indic IME v5,Webduniya, Webchutney etc.,
Vedhandha Desig
,Tiruchchirappalli, on Aug 17, 2007 06:27 PM
One Request We expect an article on use of Indian Language in computer and various softwares. I am interested to see a article with contents like Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Indian Language Handwriting recognition, Typing, Spell Check, Conversion to unicode, Conversions from One Indian Language to another Indian Language, Web Chat, search, websites in indian language and popular softwares for typing in indian languages and desktop publishing. I understand the request will be heavy on you but if you bring out this you will definetly be continously crowned india no. 1 Technology Website. May be you can use these for reference purpose. www.bhashaindia.com, www.rajbasha.nic.in/gov.in, HP Labs CDAC soft like leapoffice Madhyam typing tool Kalnayak, krutidev,Mangal ILDC.nic.in - CDs released by Dayanidhi Maran, Nokia, Motorola, Reliance Hindi initiative, Symbian v9.3 Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool, Indic IME v5, Webduniya, Webchutney etc.,

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