Re: [Dhvani-devel] [Ilugc] Improving dhvani - Crowd funding

[PrasannaKumar M. <pra...@gm...>]

> A G Ramakrishnan created some tamil tools including OCR, handwriting
> recognition and TTS.

Is it created using public funded money? If so it must be open source.

> Yesterday attended his demo/talk at Tamil virtual university, chennai.
>
> His tools are working fine.
> But they are not for public access.
> Fully propitiatory :-(
>
>
> They host their TTS demo here.
> http://mile.ee.iisc.ernet.in:8080/tts_demo/

Dhvani's output also sounds similar. May be they are using the same
back end code and voice for this also?

> Asked him to release their all software as Free Software or Open Source
> Software.
> He asked to mail him personally regarding this.

What does the reply mean?

The best answer to all these is to make Dhvani the best possible TTS
for Indian languages.

Thanks and Regards,
PrasannaKumar