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30th March 2007 - New Morphology Project |
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Dr Ksenia Shalonova has joined Prof Peter Flach at the Univeristy of Bristol, UK, for a 3-year project applying machine learning techniques to the morphological analysis of languages with complex recursive structures and a lot of ambiguities (mainly African, Asian and East European languages). The project will focus on Turkish, Russian and isiZulu (a Bantu language predominantly spoken in South-Africa) as example languages.
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24th July 2006 - Banana Information Service goes live |
Kenya's first large-scale voice information line to support rural farmers went live today. The service supports
banana growers at all stages, from first deciding whether to grow bananas, through to planting, maintenance, harvesting and pest
control. The service uses the LLSTI Kiswahili text-to-speech system, and was developed jointly by the agricultural extension service NALEP, Uppsala University Sweden, the
University of Nairobi and Outside Echo. The service is hosted by Speechnet, and can be called 9am to 9pm Kenyan time on 07279 50483 locally or
+254 7279 50483 internationally. Initial responses to the service have been extremely positive, as until now such information
has not been widely accessible. (14/05/07 - service no longer operational - awaiting further development) |
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31st May 2006 - Internationalizing SSML |
| LLSTI Technical Co-ordinator Ksenia Shalonova joined with TTS experts from around the world in Crete at the second
W3C workshop on internationalizing the speech synthesis markup language SSML. Copies of all the presentations and minutes of the workshop are available from the
W3C Website. |
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21st August 2005 - Open Source Telephony platform; TTS and ASR for more Southern African langauges |
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LLSTI partners Meraka Institute in South Africa have been awarded a grant by OSI and OSISA to develop an
open-source telephony platform that is suitable for developing-world
users and application developers. The platform will cater for both
text-to-speech and speech-recognition capabilities, which can be added
in modular fashion. Part of the funding is also being used for the
development of text-to-speech and speech recognition in a few of the
languages of Southern Africa.
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1st March 2005 - Language Downloads Available |
| Festival users can now download our first 4 local language TTS systems. |
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1st March 2005 - Interactive Demo for Kiswahili now available |
| Try out local language TTS yourself. |
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9th November 2004 - CSR Europe Conference |
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LLSTI Director Roger Tucker joined with Hewlett Packard, Proctor & Gamble and the
Royal College of Nurses at a workshop on Meeting the Millenium Deveopment Goals - a Business Case
for the Bottom of the Pyramid. A full report of this workshop is available on request.
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