GSoC/2007
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Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is participating in Google Summer of Code.
Mentors
- Praveen A
- Anivar Aravind
- Suresh P
- Santhosh Thottingal
- Hussain K.H
Ideas
- Fix Malayalam Rendering (pango, qt and Open Office) issues - Savannah Task
- Open Type font with Swathanthra Malayalam Computing Design Specifications
- Add additional Indian Language support to Dhvani (currently Dhvani support Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam)
- Enhance/tune Dhvani text to speech engine to remove the gaps between phonemes - Savannah Task
- Integrate Dhvani text to speech engine with libraries (gtk and qt) and applications (Firefox, Evince and Open Office) - Savannah Task
- SARIKA -Speech recognition support for Free Software Desktops (GNOME and KDE) - Savannah Task
- Improve Akshara, add support for using unicode fonts and ability to handle multiple languages - Savannah Task
- Translation Application for Malayalam (English-to-Malayalam and Malayalam-to-English)
- A desktop dictionary application which can use wiktionary as the database (online and offline versions) and ability to update information
- A Malayalam Typing tutor like Tuxtype - Savannah Task
Selected Projects
Successful projects
- Unicode Standard Malayalam Font by Hiran V, mentored by Hussain K.H
- Basic Voice Recognition System for malayalam by Shyam k, mentored by Santhosh Thottingal
- Tuxtype Indian Language Support, Malayalam Typing Tutor by Mobin Mohan, mentored by Praveen A
- Comprehensive malayalam input system for GNU/Linux by Jinesh K J, mentored by suresh p
Failed projects
- Malayalam OCR by Antony Francis Maliakal mentored by Anivar Aravind (reason, student disappeared and no sourcecode availability. Failed in midterm evaluation )
