On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Tejaswini Niranjana teju@cscs.res.in wrote:
Colleagues working in Bangla say that in their experience it is faster, cheaper, and less error-prone to create digital texts by typing them in.
The "cheaper" is an interesting word to use in this context. Are we still arbitraging on the low-cost of human labor to input texts? It is faster/less error-prone because you are comparing against systems that are vaporware.
Once there is a larger body of digitised texts, and OCR technology for Indian languages also improves, OCR could become the preferred option.
With the strong emphasis on "cheaper", I wonder if there will be enough demand for a machine driven system.