Speech Technology for Mobile Phones

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Speech Technology for Mobile Phones

• Rajesh Hegde
• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
• Commonwealth of Learning Vancouver

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About the speaker

• Faculty Member in the Dept. of EE _at_ at Indian
  Institute of Technology, Kanpur
• Research Areas
• Speech Recognition on Embedded and Mobile
  devices for Indian Languages
• Pervasive Computing and Communication for
  Socially Relevant Applications  

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Topics to be Covered

• How can speech technology be used for developing
  applications on a mobile phone ?
• What is Automatic speech recognition (ASR) and
  text to speech synthesis (TTS) ?
• What are the challenges in implementing ASR and
  TTS systems on a mobile phone ?
• What are the potential applications of speech
  technology in delivering personalized services on
  a mobile phone ?
• A personalized voice based service on mobile
  phones in several Indian Languages Digital
  Mandi for the Indian
• A Hindi speech recognition based system on the
  mobile phone for accessing agro-commodity prices
  for the Farmer.