Chennai, August 16
To cater to the Hindi heartland, a speech recognition technology for Hindi has been developed by software major IBM. This new technology will help less literate and physically challenged persons among the speakers of the language,access information through a variety of applications.The Desktop Hindi Speech Recognition Technology developed by IBM India Software Lab in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC) will provide a
natural interface for human-computer interaction.
The technology which helps transcribe continuous Hindi speech instantly into text form, could find use in a variety of applications like voice-enabled ATMs, car navigation systems, banking, telecom, railways and airlines. The system can recognise more than 75,000 Hindi words with dialetical variations, providing an accuracy level of 90-95 per cent. A spellchecker to correct spoken-word errors also enhances the accuracy.
The technology also has integrated many user-friendly features such as facility to convert text to digits and decimals, date and currency format, and into fonts which can be imported to any windows-based application.
The technology will also enable C-DAC to ensure high-level accuracy in Hindi translation in a host of domains including administration, finance, agriculture and small scale industry. |
