Saturday, August 18, 2007

Now computers can understand Hindi

Source: businessstandard.com

IBM has developed a speech recognition Technology,"The Desktop Hindi Speech Recognition Technology", to help physically challenged and less literate Hindi speakers access information through a variety of applications.

The technology trancribes Hindi speech into text form. It has a capacity to recognize more than 75,000 Hindi words with different dialects, resulting in an accuracy of 90-95 percent.

The technology has many user-friendly features such as a spell checker to correct spoken word errors, a facility to convert text to digits and decimals, date and currency formats, and into fonts which any Windows based application can import.

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