Thoughts

I was at Nanded recently as part of staff development program in the area of recent advances in the areas of signal, image and visual processing. It was nice to see some very attentive audience, not so young and not so old! I got to speak on two topics Mobile Vehicle Plate Recognition and Indexing of Multilingual News Broadcast videos. Some Pictures of the Gurudwara. Understand that this is second to the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

It does sound odd, but one of the geographies that urgently requires speech recognition based solutions for all sort of transactions is India. And Indian language resources that are required to build such applications are not too mature. This is a contradiction of sorts! With 22 officially recognized languages (leaving aside the several dialects and accents), penetration of internet not being so great (infra-structurally and economically) , text entry in Indian languages being not easy, majority of the population staying in villages, rural folks being English literate on one side and the proliferation of mobile phones into rural areas on another side. Voice channel penetrates everywhere in India. Making voice the expressway to reach people! Discusses several aspects of this.