IIIT to develop technology for converting speech into text message

[ganeshbala]

IIIT to develop technology for converting speech into text message

City-based International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) is set to develop a mobile technology that would accept speech as input and convert it into language and text, which can be sent as an SMS, a top functionary of IIIT said.

The project, which has been funded by the Ministry of Information Technology, will be ready in the next two years.

"You can talk to the mobile phone. Suppose, anybody does not know reading or writing, they can dictate the phone the SMS, which they would like to send. They should be able to speak it out and then the phone will convert it into text and send it as a message,"

And seven more institutions are currently working on this project.

The technology will be useful in mobile phones, which have smaller screens and keyboard, making it difficult to type letters.

"The optical character reader will read whatever is written on the screen with the help of a handwriting recognition tool. We can write the instructions in any Indian languages on a mobile phone, using a stylus. The text will be recognised by the cell-phone and action can be taken accordingly,"


The institute has also developed a software for an international mobile maker that would read out the SMSs in Hindi, Sangal said, without naming the mobile maker's name.