GSoC/2007

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is participating in Google Summer of Code.



Mentors

 * 1) Praveen A
 * 2) Anivar Aravind
 * 3) Suresh P
 * 4) Santhosh Thottingal
 * 5) Hussain K.H

Ideas

 * 1) Fix Malayalam Rendering (pango, qt and Open Office) issues - Savannah Task
 * 2) Open Type font with Swathanthra Malayalam Computing Design Specifications
 * 3) Add additional Indian Language support to Dhvani (currently Dhvani support Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam)
 * 4) Enhance/tune Dhvani text to speech engine to remove the gaps between phonemes - Savannah Task
 * 5) Integrate Dhvani text to speech engine with libraries (gtk and qt) and applications (Firefox, Evince and Open Office) - Savannah Task
 * 6) SARIKA -Speech recognition support for Free Software Desktops (GNOME and KDE) - Savannah Task
 * 7) Improve Akshara, add support for using unicode fonts and ability to handle multiple languages - Savannah Task
 * 8) Translation Application for Malayalam (English-to-Malayalam and Malayalam-to-English)
 * 9) A desktop dictionary application which can use wiktionary as the database (online and offline versions) and ability to update information
 * 10) A Malayalam Typing tutor like Tuxtype - Savannah Task

Selected Projects
Successful projects


 * 1) Unicode Standard Malayalam Font by Hiran V, mentored by Hussain K.H
 * 2) Basic Voice Recognition System for malayalam  by Shyam k, mentored by Santhosh Thottingal
 * 3) Tuxtype Indian Language Support, Malayalam Typing Tutor by Mobin Mohan, mentored by Praveen A
 * 4) Comprehensive malayalam input system for GNU/Linux by Jinesh K J, mentored by suresh p

Failed projects


 * 1) Malayalam OCR by Antony Francis Maliakal  mentored by Anivar Aravind (reason, student disappeared and no sourcecode availability. Failed in midterm evaluation )

Links

 * Google Summer of Code