The Hindu Business Line : IBM, C-DAC in pact for Hindi speech recognition tool

Mr Shanker Annaswamy (left), Managing Director, IBM India/South Asia, and Mr Pavan Vaish, CEO, IBM DAKSH, at a press conference in the Capital on Thursday. —

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New Delhi, Aug 16 The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and IBM India Research Laboratory on Thursday announced the development of Shrutlekhan-Rajbhasha, a Hindi speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system using IBM Desktop Hindi Speech Recognition technology.

This would help physically challenged and illiterate Hindi speakers access information through a variety of applications. The technology helps transcribe continuous speech in Hindi instantly into text form and could find use in a variety of applications such as voice-enabled ATMs, car navigation systems, banking, telecom, Railways and airlines. The system can recognise more than 75,000 Hindi words with variations in dialects, providing an accuracy level of 90-95 per cent. It also has a spell checker to correct spoken word errors.

It has integrated many user-friendly features such as facility to convert text to digits and decimals, date and currency format, and into fonts that can be imported into any Windows-based application.

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