France Telecom, Orange Lab GPLed Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS)

Hi,


On 12-july-2008, Paul Bagshaw [France Telecom Orange Labs] has announced on Voice Browser Working Group, Public mailing list, "To assist in the wider use of this W3C recommendation, France Telecom Orange Labs has released an implementation of PLS 1.0 under the Gnu General Public License version 3. "

Here is the link to E-mail.

The implementation is in perl.

If you want to try it out, here is the link to download page.


My Personal thought : I have started the OpenPLS however very much frankly, i was not able to contribute much to OpenPLS (which is hosted at www.sourceforge.net/projects/openpls) due to time crunch !

Its really good to have this implementation as opensourced. I would love to see PLS as standard. Kudo's to folks at France Telcom Orange Labs.


-Raxit Sheth

openpls, mykavita , mobile 4 mumbai and other updates !

What we are upto !

Few readers ping us not much "On-Topic" blogpost related to Voip/VoiceXml/IVR etc ???

Let me explain a bit

MyKavita
Some of you already knowing, in January we launched http://www.Mykavita.com [Kavita means poem] a website based on wordpress where people can write their poem. This was interesting idea on my mind. Its going better than expected !. Our host asked to increase RAM/cpu for the server !. There are some more plan ahead, and some competitor also of the site ! Yeah !

If you are interested in update of mkavita,progress of it, and more details, please refer Mykavita blog http://www.mykavita.com/blog

Mobile 4 Mumbai
Additional to that, some of indian friends, barcampers and MoMo people knowing about the project just kickstarted ! Mobile 4 Mumbai http://m4mum.com ! Its basically some useful utility that can help normal people (this application is having indian context)

OpenPLS
Last but not least is, OpenPLS, www.sourceforge.net/projects/openpls
PLS is related to Speech Technology ! Its Java (Yeah dont panic !) based opensource implementation (LGPL License) we are developing. You must be guessing you have read somewhere on www-voice@w3.org , Yes you are correct Dirk www.jvoicexml.org has announced the project.


For openpls we are into requirenment gathering stage for implementation. if you are geek who want to design and code from scratch, drop a note to me or dirk ! You can be part of openpls.


Let me know for any query !

Note :
Mobile 4 mumbai, if you are into mobile gui development (j2me, symbian, nokia any platform any language, and if you think the project is useful and you want to involved. drop a line to me.)

OpenPLS: Contributors/volunteers contact dirk or me.



Cheers,
Raxit