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The Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing will be jointly organising an International Conference on Speech and Language Technology and Workshop on Oriental COCOSDA (ICSL-O-COCOSDA 2004). The three-day Conference will be inaugurated by the Minister of Communications & Information Technology, Shri Dayanidhi Maran, here tomorrow, in which 200 delegates, including 50 from abroad (oriental countries) will be taking part. About 120 experts/delegates will be presenting their technical papers during the Conference. The purpose of the Conference is to provide an international forum and platform to share the experiences of oriental countries in the area of Speech Synthesis and Recognition Technologies, Machine Aided Translation, Multilingual Corpora and Content Creation, Optical Character Recognition and Digital Library.
Oriental COCOSDA is an international workshop held every year by the oriental chapter of The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques for Speech Input/Output. Tomorrow’s workshop is the seventh of its kind being held along with the International Conference. The first preparatory meeting was held in Hong Kong followed by Japan, Taiwan, China Mainland, Korea, Thailand and Singapore.
Oriental COCOSDA will provide opportunities for presentations and group discussions with researchers in the areas of focal interest from different countries. There is an international trend towards speech-enabling the technological products and this can see the light of the day in the Indian language context, when the research outcomes of speech technology are applied.
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