SMC/SoC/2007
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is participating in Google Summer of Code.
Mentors
Ideas
- Fix Malayalam Rendering (pango, qt and Open Office) issues and come up with a font design guidelines
- Add additional Indian Language support to Dhvani (currently Dhvani support Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam)
- Enhance/tune Dhvani text to speech engine to remove the gaps between phonemes
- Integrate Dhvani text to speech engine with libraries (gtk and qt) and applications (Firefox, Evince and Open Office).
- Voice recognition support for Free Software Desktops (GNOME and KDE)
- Improve Akshara, add support for using unicode fonts and ability to handle multiple languages.
- Translation Application for Malayalam (English-to-Malayalam and Malayalam-to-English)
- A desktop dictionary application which can use wiktionary as the database (online and offline versions) and ability to update information.