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