| Diwas |
Posted
on 12-Dec-00 01:28 PM
In response to Sangita's question at the Comments section re: Nepali fonts, and to take it one step further, current Devanagri fonts require users to be able to type in Devnagri. This is a huge learning process, and various fonts used are not compatible. To bring down the learning curve, and to make Devnagari fonts appear on any TEXT area, including this typed message, there are a few tools out there, one of which is the iTrans, which phonetically transliterates your regular English typing to Devnagari fonts. Eg. if you type <'n' 'e' 'p' 'a' 'l' 'i'>, the output is "nepali" in devnagari font. But this tool is designed for south Indian language, grammar and vocabulary.
I am currently (for the last few years) working on a Nepali transliteration tool that will work for "NepAli bhAsA, sAhitya, byAkaran^, and with only a TEN rules to learn.
More info on this will be posted at http://palpali.virtualave.net at a future time.
If anyone has any comments, questions, ideas or inputs (of any sort and size), please email me at diwask@hotmail.com
Also, I am looking for a NepAli byAkaran^ expert to help me.
Thanks
-diwas
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 12-Dec-00 09:02 PM
Hi Diwas:
Great job,man! I am(we are) waiting for information in your web
site,and thanks again for considering us to share your knowledge
on the field.
In another note,an Junior in Bates College,Shameer Maskey,
has recently developed Nepali voice recognition software to be
launched from Carnegie Melon University.Maskey who had worked as
research assistant in Auburn University,Georgia Tech,Carnegie
Melon and CalTech is a whizz kid from Kathmandu.Those interested
may wait for announcement from CMU.It is not technological
breakthrough,but it is a first Nepalese Voice recognition software
as long as I know!!
Diwas,for language expertise,please refer to "Ramro Rachana
Mitho Nepali",which taught a lot of us to write Nepalese language
in our highschool!That remains one of the best grammar book
published yet!
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