[Indic-computing-devel] Re: [Indic-computing-users] Speech technology group: Indic -Computing

[Hema A M. <he...@la...>]

Prof. Yegnanaryana of IIT Madras has Doordarshan News data for 8 different
Indian Languages.  There are between 20-33 bulletins in each language.
Tamil, Hindi and Telugu have been labelled using C*V.

Prof. Yegnanarayana's e-mail id is: ye...@ii....  Students and
faculty at IITM do have free access to this database.  He is planning to
make it available to others too.  My suggestion is that you can write/
talk to him about these databases.  We have been using this database
for getting rules for prosody for TTS and Continuous Speech Recognition.

-hema
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Kalika Bali wrote:

> 
> Please,
> its KALIKA not any of the other varients used.
> 
> I don't know if Dr. Dash remembers but I did mail him a month and a half 
> ago asking him if he was aware of any speech corpus in Indian languages 
> that I could use and he had told me the same thing.
> 
> I did go to the TDIl site but they only mentioned some machine-readable (I 
> presumed- text) corpora being maintained by CIIL, Mysore. Nothing at all 
> on speech corpora. 
> 
> Dr. Dash do you know what the IBM speech recogniser is using to train 
> their models ?
> 
> thanks,
> Kalika 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Niladri Sekhar Dash wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Dear Tapan S. Parikh,
> > 
> > Thanks for your mail. Sorry I have late in reply. To my knowledge speech 
> > corpus in Indian languages are very rare. Only a few gropus have developed 
> > this. However, they are not properly designed follwing the designing 
> > principles applied in LOB or Swedish speech corpus.
> > 
> > Some information regarding Indian speech corpus can be found in the News 
> > Letter of MIT, Govt. of India at : http://tdil.mit.gov.in
> > 
> > With best wishes and regards,
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > 
> > Niladri
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> > 
> >  On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, 
> > Tapan S. Parikh wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Dr. Dash et al,
> > > 
> > > Yes, that is great, welcome to the mailing list!  
> > > 
> > > btw I think Vijay meant Kavita Bali who attended the conference.  She is
> > > working with Picopeta Simputers and is researching indic language speech
> > > corpuses (corpii?).  
> > > 
> > > We look forward to interact with you all in future!
> > > 
> > > -- Tapan
> > > 
> > > -- Mailing List Admin
> > > -- Indic-Computing Project  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 05 Oct 2002 14:24:23 +0530
> > > Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya <vi...@ek...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > This is for attention for the groups particularly interested to work
> > > > on speech technology for Indian languages & development of corpus. Let
> > > > me introduce to the group Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash of ISI Kolkatta,
> > > > who is working on development of corpus (both written and spoken)
> > > > generation in Indian languages, language processing, lexical resource
> > > > generation and lexicography.
> > > > 
> > > > As this was one of the identified gap at the workshop and we had only 
> > > > Kokila (& Ravikant) there to represent linguists. I had been in touch 
> > > > with Prof. Dash in post workshop communication and he offer to be part
> > > > 
> > > > of the group and take up some responsibility in his domain areas, 
> > > > besides bringing in other colleagues from ISI to join in to contribute
> > > > 
> > > > to Indic-Computing.
> > > > 
> > > > I have suggested Prof. Dash to take intiative in this area and help to
> > > > 
> > > > develop this group. I would suggest members interested in corpus 
> > > > building to get in touch with Prof. dash. I am including the mails 
> > > > exchnaged with him as under.
> > > > 
> > > > best
> > > > 
> > > > vijay
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Cc: Prof. Dash may I request you to kindly join Indic-Computing
> > > > mailing lists, you can go to http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/
> > > > to subscribe
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Niladri Sekhar Dash wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >  >Dear Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya,
> > > >  >
> > > >  >Nice to hear you. I will be happy to join the group and think myself
> > > >  >fortunate that I can serve with others in the team for common couse
> > > >  >of 
> > > > our
> > > >  >nation.
> > > >  >
> > > >  >Today, I had a discussion regarding your conference minutes with my
> > > >  >HoD, Prof. B.B. Chaudhuri who lamented that he did not prior
> > > >  >information about the conference. Otherwise, he might have joined
> > > >  >it. Meanwhile, he had a meeting with Pat Hall and Durgesh Rao at
> > > >  >Berlin where he had some feed backs about the conference.
> > > >  >
> > > >  >In fact, we have been doing researches in many areas of language
> > > >  >technology (e.g., OCR, spell-checker, morphological
> > > >  >processor, speech synthesis, Information retrieval, document
> > > >  >processing, font designing, MRDs, etc.) for Bangla and other
> > > >  >languages. All these people along with their works can probably join
> > > >  >Indic Computing to achieve better results. If your group likes then
> > > >  >I can approach 
> > > > them to
> > > >  >think about it.
> > > >  >
> > > >  >With best wishes,
> > > >  >
> > > >  >Niladri
> > > >  >======
> > > >  >
> > > >  >
> > > >  >
> > > >  >
> > > >  >On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya wrote:
> > > >  >
> > > >  >>Dear Dr. Dash,
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>Thanks for your mail and support, we would be very happy if you
> > > >  >join the>Indic-Computing effort, the community which has come
> > > >  >together is looking>forward to guidance from senior people like you.
> > > >  >Your support is much>required and as the areas identified by you in
> > > >  >which you would be able>to contribute had been one of the major
> > > >  >areas of concerns amongst the>participants at the worksop, I think
> > > >  >people would look forward to all>possible help.
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>Alow me to post your mail to the Indic computing mailing list, i
> > > >  >hope>people owho are working in localisation and developing lexical
> > > >  >resources>woould get back to you for your inputs on the work that
> > > >  >they are doing.>
> > > >  >><<2. Regarding Handbook writing, I can inform you that I have
> > > >  >started>writing a book on corpus generation in Indian languages. It
> > > >  >is near>completion. This can be a good resource for the people (old
> > > >  >and new)>related with this field.>>
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>The Handbook that you are making could also be merged with the one
> > > >  >we>already are planning such that developers and people working in
> > > >  >the area>can have acccess to all the possible resources. This is an
> > > >  >execellent>direction aken by you, we on the other hand are trying to
> > > >  >begin in this>direction for the technical handbook.
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >><<3. If needed I can probably initiate efforts for generation of
> > > >  >speech>corpus for Indian languages which can be further
> > > >  >transliterated,>transcripted and annotated following a national
> > > >  >standard - to be 
> > > > designed
> > > >  >>by the experts. This area is still unexplored and needs strong 
> > > > initiation.>>
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>I think this would be perfect, I think we can involve all the
> > > >  >people 
> > > > working in this area to organise themsleves, could I also suggest foor
> > > > a small workshop of developers and experts in this area, as the one 
> > > > suggested by us for OTF.
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >><<4. Regarding coordination and interaction with lunguists 
> > > > communities, I
> > > >  >>can ask some of my teachers, colleagues and students to join in the
> > > >  >team>to work together.>>
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>I think if you can coordiante this effort and if we can form a
> > > >  >team, 
> > > > it would be wornderful, I would infact request you to join in the
> > > > Indic computing list and offer your help. I shall also post (subject
> > > > to your confirmation) your mail at the list.
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >><<Kindly, let me know your views on these issues. Thanks.
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>With best wishes,>>
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>I think we have a lot oof value to add in terms oof standardization
> > > >  >
> > > > and developing resources for enabling computing. Your help would be
> > > > very useful. I look forwward to your confirmation so that II can
> > > > introduce your maiil to the group and then start the process of group
> > > > formation in this critical area.
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>Regards
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>vijay
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>Niladri Sekhar Dash wrote:
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>>Dear Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya,
> > > >  >>>
> > > >  >>>Thanks for your mail. Let me inform you that I went through the
> > > >  >>>"Action points Indic Computing Workshop September 2002" and found
> > > >  >some>>ereas where I can participate. These are as follows:
> > > >  >>>
> > > >  >>>1. My area of work is corpus (both written and spoken) generation
> > > >  >in>>Indian languages, language processing, lexical resource
> > > >  >generation and>>lexicography. I find some to be useful for Indic
> > > >  >Computing group.>>
> > > >  >>>2. Regarding Handbook writing, I can inform you that I have
> > > >  >started>>writing a book on corpus generation in Indian languages. It
> > > >  >is near>>completion. This can be a good resource for the people (old
> > > >  >and new)>>related with this field.
> > > >  >>>
> > > >  >>>3. If needed I can probably initiate efforts for generation of
> > > >  >speech>>corpus for Indian languages which can be further
> > > >  >transliterated,>>transcripted and annotated following a national
> > > >  >standard - to be 
> > > > designed
> > > >  >>>by the experts. This area is still unexplored and needs strong 
> > > > initiation.
> > > >  >>>
> > > >  >>>4. Regarding coordination and interaction with lunguists
> > > >  >communities, I>>can ask some of my teachers, colleagues and students
> > > >  >to join in the 
> > > > team
> > > >  >>>to work together.
> > > >  >>>
> > > >  >>>Kindly, let me know your views on these issues. Thanks.
> > > >  >>>
> > > >  >>>With best wishes,
> > > >  >>>
> > > >  >>>Niladri,
> > > >  >>>==========
> > > >  >
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