[Indic-computing-users] Re: RE: Speech technology group: Indic -Computing (Mita)

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Hi Mita,

Apologies for the mistake in names, (sorry Kalika). As fopr the minutes 
I shall be sending then tommorrow evening, I had done them and shall be 
sending after updatinf some later feedback also.

best

vijay

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>   1. Interesting... sounds like our problems... (Frederick Noronha)
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>   3. Re: Speech technology group: Indic -Computing (Tapan S. Parikh)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 00:50:08 +0530 (IST)
>From: Frederick Noronha <fr...@by...>
>To: Ind...@li...
>Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Interesting... sounds like our problems...
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>   Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:18:36 +0800
>   From: "Susan Ellison-McGee" <sm...@ad...>
>Subject: Re: Fw: Khmer Script on the internet
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>Just wanted to add one more item to this discussion.  Aizu Izumi from
>GLOCOM, a Japanese group that is part of the DOT Force gave an interesting
>presentation on what has happened in putting Khmer Script on the Internet.
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>I can't locate his presentation (which was made at one of the civil society
>sessions of the World Summit on the Information Society Preparatory
>Committee), but here is a brief excerpt from a report that GLOCOM and the
>Japanese non-profit community have prepared for the DOTForce,
>http://www.glocom.ac.jp/dotforce/20010417glocomcommentto20.html
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>"A recent case in Khmer language characters used by Cambodian people
>illustrates the difficult nature of these challenges. The existing Khmer
>language code was developed without sufficient participation by native
>Cambodian people, and was proposed and adopted by the Unicode Forum, a
>private consortium, then transferred to ISO (International Standard
>Organization) and became legitimate international standard almost
>automatically. Now, a new and vastly improved code (and input system) has
>been developed mostly by a Japanese volunteer, endorsed by a Cambodian
>government agency, but there is no formal mechanism available to appeal to
>ISO or the Unicode Forum for the people and government of Cambodia. This is
>not really a technical problem; it is rather a social and international,
>business problem. Microsoft, for example, adopts most of Unicode forum's
>output as the de facto standard and so it becomes the basis for that
>language in the Microsoft operating system, Internet Explorer and Netscape
>browsers, etc.) To change existing standard into new one involves
>considerable investment in time and money."
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>Message: 2
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>From: "Mita" <mi...@au...>
>To: <ind...@li...>
>Subject: RE: [Indic-computing-users] Speech technology group: Indic -Computing
>Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 16:52:53 +0530
>Organization: ALL
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>1.  Just for the record, gentlemen, 
>	 its neither Kokila nor Kavita but KALIKA BALI from Picopeta.
>2.  Vijay mentions the conference minutes > please can somebody send us
>a copy too. 
>3.  I may be going to Delhi in 10 days, so if you feel its important, I
>can pass on the minutes to the Jt Secy (Languages) at Min of Educ.
>Also, two other  Jt Secys in the same Ministry, both of whom, as I said
>earlier, are very nice people and if called upon to help, will surely do
>so.	Venky, could you make any progress in thearticle/letter?  A
>brief one page in addition to the conference minutes would do....  
>4.  Great that Dr. Dash has joined.  Isn't it amazing how much wonderful
>work is happening all over the country!  
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>Cheers
>Mita
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>Aurovillle Language Laboratory
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>Centre Field, Auroville, Tamil Nadu - 605101. INDIA.
>Tel:91-413-622575/623661. Fax:91-413-622274.  
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ind...@li...
>[mailto:ind...@li...] On Behalf Of
>Tapan S. Parikh
>Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 4:02 PM
>To: Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya
>Cc: ind...@li...;
>ind...@li...; ni...@is...
>Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Speech technology group: Indic
>-Computing
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>Dr. Dash et al,
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>Yes, that is great, welcome to the mailing list!  
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>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?).  
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>We look forward to interact with you all in future!
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>-- Tapan
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>Message: 3
>Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:49:46 +0530
>From: "Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@ya...>
>To: <mi...@au...>
>Cc: ind...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Speech technology group: Indic -Computing
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>>3.  I may be going to Delhi in 10 days, so if you feel its important,
>>I can pass on the minutes to the Jt Secy (Languages) at Min of Educ.
>>Also, two other  Jt Secys in the same Ministry, both of whom, as I
>>said earlier, are very nice people and if called upon to help, will
>>surely do so.	Venky, could you make any progress in thearticle/letter?
>> A
>>brief one page in addition to the conference minutes would do....  
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>Could we discuss with them the possibility of their support for putting
>on courses in and university that would allow artists, linguists and
>computer scientists to work together on projects to build excellent
>hi-quality indic fonts?
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>I think that would be a great multi-disciplinary educational activity,
>not to mention having such fonts with us would really allow us to
>develop some other good educational materials in LL...
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>Sounds like a good idea to me.
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>-- Tapan
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>PS.  Sorry Kalika!!!!
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