Outside Echo
at Chepstow, UK, co-ordinates LLSTI. Contact:
Roger
Tucker,
LLSTI Director;
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Meraka Institute,
South Africa, have developed the isiZulu TTS system, as well as
extensions to Festival. Contact:
Marelie Davel; Etienne
Barnard |
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CSTR,
Edinburgh, UK have allowed LLSTI partners early access to their recently developed Unit Selection algorithm, MultiSyn. Contact:
Rob Clark;
Simon King |
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HP Labs, India
have developed the Hindi TTS system, as well as tools for text selection and G2P. Contact:
K
S R Anjaneyulu, Manager, Language Technologies & Applications; Ms
Kalika Bali |
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University of Bielefeld, Germany and
University of Uyo, Nigeria have developed the Ibibio TTS system. Contact: Prof
Dafydd Gibbon, Head of Computational Linguistics & Spoken Language; Ms
Eno-Abasi Urua
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University of
Nairobi, Kenya, have developed the Kiswahili TTS system. Contact: Dr
Mucemi Gakuru |
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Language Technologies Research Centre
at IIIT Hyderabad, India have
developed the Morphological Decomposition Framework, which can be adapted for almost all languages by supplying the appropriate
data. Contact:
Prof Rajeev Sangal, LTRC
Director; Ms.
Dipti M. S. |
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IISc Bangalore, India are developing a Tamil TTS
system.
Contact:
A
G Ramakrishnan
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Language Sponsors: |
Oneworld
have sponsored the Kiswahili development.
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IDRC Canada have sponsored the isiZulu and Ibibio development work. |
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LLSTI itself has been supported financially by the UK Department for International Development |
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LLSTI Alumni: |
Dr Ksenia Shalonova , now at Bristol University, UK
MS Kalika Bali , now at Microsoft Research India
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