Hi,
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Partnerships & Global Reach team,
we invite all Indian Wikimedia communities to our office hours to discuss
our India partnerships plan for 2017-18
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/India_Partnerships_plan>.
Meeting Details
Date: Saturday, 30th September 2017
Time: 15:00 UTC/20:30 IST
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: English
Location: Google Hangout
<https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/rayyakkannu?authuser=0>
Please join 15 minutes before the scheduled time to sort out possible
technical issues.
Agenda
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Presenting India Partnerships plan 2017-18
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Introducing a content creation partnership for Indian languages
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Q&A
Please feel free to add your questions, comments, and expectations in this
etherpad <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/P%26GR_India_Office_hours>
document. You can also reach out to rayyakkannu(a)wikimedia.org for any
clarification. Please share this invitation in community social media
channels to spread the word.
Thanks,
Ravi
Regional Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia & Eastern Europe
Wikimedia Foundation
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May some of our Techies take up this for Gujarati TTS.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Shrinivasan T" <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
Date: 19 Sep 2017 10:07 pm
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Installing Tamil Text-to-Speech system
from IITM Donlab
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
> Date: 2017-09-20 2:35 GMT+05:30
> Subject: Installing Tamil Text-to-Speech system from IITM Donlab
> To: ilugc(a)freelists.org
>
>
> IITM donlab is working on TTS system for various Indic Languages.
> SSN Engineering college provided them the TTS system for Tamil.
>
> Few months ago, filed a RTI to get the source and install it in local
> systems
> https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/filed-a-rti-to-
> get-info-on-tamil-tts-by-iitm-and-ssn/
>
> They replied promptly and they told that all their TTS systems are
> already open source. :-)
>
>
> IITM released it as OpenSource here -
> https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/voices.php
>
>
> After following up with IITM team in few mail threads,
> On August 12, 2017, Myself, Mohan and Padmakumar visited IITM Donlab.
>
> Prof Hema and Anju Thomas welcomed us.
> We spent an entire day, trying to build the entire TTS system.
>
> As the documentation was suitable for the preconfigured systems there,
> we can not proceed further.
>
> In the evening, we discussed and found that we dont need to build the
> entire system.
> They have already providing voice model files for festival.
> We have just to download them and compile them to make them work with
> festival.
>
> we can download the voice models from
> https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/voices.php
>
> This seems easier for us.
>
> Then, we were trying to compile the voice models. Again, with lesser
> documentation,
> we can not proceed much.
>
> On Sep 15, Invited mohan to my home to work on this.
> We spent a day with no much result.
>
> Today, I mailed Anju of IITM and asked for help.
> Viola.
> We have compiled it already and we need to know where the tts script is.
>
> It really works well.
>
> Here is the demo - https://soundcloud.com/shrinivasan/tamil-tts-demo
>
> Full Details of the installation script -
> https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/how-to-compile-
> tamil-tts-engine-from-source/
>
> Automated all the installation and make a single script to do all the
> magics - https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-tts-install
>
> There are still few improvements needed.
> Currently it reads upto empty line.
> Have to make to read entire page or chapter.
> Will work on this.
>
> Tons of thanks for IITM team, SSN team, Prof Hema, Anju, Mohan,
> Padmakumar for all their great support on this.
>
> --
> Regards,
> T.Shrinivasan
>
>
> My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
> Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com
>
> Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
> http://FreeTamilEbooks.com
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> T.Shrinivasan
>
>
> My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
> Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com
>
> Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
> http://FreeTamilEbooks.com
>
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