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Hello,<br>
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<li>I am Debdutto Chakraborty, currently studying in pre-final
year B.Tech in Computer Science and engineering from Asansol
Engineering College. Also, I'm new to this world of open source
although I've been using Ubuntu & various other Open Sourced
software por past 3-4 years, I had no idea that it was such a
huge thing.<br>
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<li>I was going through the ideas page and the following two
project ideas really struck me:<br>
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<li><b>Design and development of a print ready OpenType font for
Bengali</b>: Being a Bengali myself, a;though i could speak
bengali but I learned to read/write the language quite later
in life. Also I'm familiar with font designing techniques as i
created a font of my own handwriting using a technique given
long back in Digit magazine. Although there might be different
tools at work here, but I'm known to be highly adaptive in
such cases.<br>
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<li><b>Add</b><b> a language model for speech recognition
software for Bengali language</b>: For people like me, who
can speak/read fluent Bengali but stutter while writing, this
kind of software will a boon. Although I'm not familiar with
how speech recognition actually works or how it is built, I'm
researching/googling everything I can find on the web right
now. Also, any help from Ankur India will be great<br>
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<li>Since I'm in college now, I've classes. Still, i will be able
to provide around 8-10 hours of work every day. If more time is
needed I'm always ready to cough up some extra work-hours.<br>
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<li>Speaking of commitments I only have my college classes &
nothing else.<br>
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<li>I've arranged for a unlimited Internet connection, and I'll
always be on-line on the IRC channels. Therefore, a mentor's
presence virtually will be of no hindrance. We will be able to
communicate via mails, IRC, mailing-lists.<br>
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<li>Yes, I'm comfortable in English.</li>
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Yours Sincerely,<br>
Debdutto Chakraborty<br>
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<p>Mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joy.virus2@gmail.com">joy.virus2@gmail.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:debdutto.exe@gmail.com">debdutto.exe@gmail.com</a><br>
IRC: _joy<br>
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