LT Project Ideas

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Contents 1 Natural Language Processing 2 Speech Processing 3 Machine Translation 4 Other 5 Software Localization 6 Desktop Applications (existing or new) 7 Web Applications 8 Interface 9 Content

Natural Language Processing

Speech Processing

• Sinhala Text-to-Speech Synthesis using Unit selection approach
• Talking Tourist Aid Software
• Porting Festival Sinhala voice into Mobile Devices (PDAs/Smartphones )using Flight (ASI C)
• Porting Festival Sinhala voice into Mobile Devices (PDAs/Smartphones )using FreeTTS (J2ME)
• Screen Reader Software for Mobile Phones (English or Sinhala)
• Porting Festival Sinhala voice into FreeTTS (J2EE)
• Phrase Breaking Algorithm for Festival Sinhala Voice
• Duration Assignment Algorithm for Festival Sinhala Voice
• Stress Assignment Algorithm for Sinhala
• ToBI Annotation Scheme for Sinhala & Modeling Intonation for Festival Sinhala voice
• Modeling 3D face and Lip synchronization with Festival
• Adding more functionality to MS-SAPI Sinhala voice (Implementation of Sinhala text readability function for JAWS - a well known screen reader or Develop Screen Reader Software to read Sinhala text)
• Festival and Asterisk

Machine Translation

• Enhance Web page translator (Firefox plug-in) [See EnSiTip] - Translate phrases into target language and display as a tool-tip (when mouse moves on top of a particular phrase).

Other

• Unicode to Braille - Braille to Unicode converter

Software Localization

Desktop Applications (existing or new)

• Local language games like Hangman, puzzles
• Software developed at SDU (Harsha sir's lab)
• Concordance tool developed by Prem
• New Firefox themes in local languages?
• Spell checker using the word list of an accepted Sinhala spelling book

ref.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajax-spell/ http://www.loresoft.com/Applications/NetSpell/Articles/152.aspx http://www.loresoft.com/Applications/NetSpell/Articles/198.aspx http://sourceforge.net/projects/bspell/ http://plone.org/products/cmfspellcheck/releases/6.3 http://sourceforge.net/projects/worduntwister/

• Adding Sinhala support to Open Layer for Unicode (this program allows a unicode Windows application to run unchanged on all versions of Windows, including Windows 95, 98 and ME.)

ref.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencow/

Web Applications

• Open Webmail
• UCSC Library system
• GreenStone
• GIS
• Sahana
• OsCommerce
• Online survey systems (e.g. survey monkeys)
• Content management systems (drupal, mambo etc)
• Blogs (e.g. wordpress)
• Forums (e.g. php bb)

Interface

• VLC media player
• Winamp
• Useful Firefox plug-ins
• Firefox (new version)
• Thunderbird
• Google (remaining sections like directory, groups etc)
• PSPad

Content

• UCSC Website
• Wikipedia
• Wikitravel