Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at BRAC

University on 19/02/09 3pm

We are pleased to announce the first official release of our Bangla language processing software
packages “Katha” (text-to-speech) and BanglaOCR (optical character recognition). We invite
you to join us in celebrating this occasion on February 19, 2009 at 3 pm at BRAC University.
See the computer create Bangla unicode text from scanned images and then read out the text.
Meet the people behind it.

We have come a long way, but we have even a longer way to go.

The TTS and OCR run on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. There is also a web-enabled front-end
for the TTS (and under development for the OCR), making these tools available at anytime and
from anywhere. We are working on better integration with screen readers in collaboration with
the vision impaired community.

The Bangla language processing tools developed at CRBLP are free and open source software,
released under GNU Public License v2, and supported in part by funding from Canadian IDRC
and BRAC University. Please visit CRBLP website http://www.bracu.ac.bd/research/crblp/ for
more information on who we are and what we do.

Location: 203 Aarong House, BRAC University, 66 Mohakhali C/A

(mention "CRBLP seminar")
Time: 3 pm

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Mumit Khan, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Head, Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing
BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
mumit@bracu.ac.bd
+(880-2) 882-4051 Extension 4019