<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">-> self introduction (courses attending etc)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> My name is Shikhar Sharma. I am a student of B.Tech Computer Science, 2nd year in VIT, Vellore</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> I have completed my schooling from various Schools, last one being Alchon International, NOIDA U.P </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> I have a keen interest in learning various technologies.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Currently I have enrolled myself in CISCO Certification training, I am a part of Artificial </font></div><div><font face="times new
roman, new york, times, serif"> Intelligence group in VIT and besides that, I prefer learning and implementing various latest languages. </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> I am attending Natural Language Processing course from Coursera. It is the best technical exposure related </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> to my project.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">-> what is the scope of the proposal (especially what is outside the scope)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Project Idea:</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> I want to propose a
project which combines the use of speech recognition and speech synthesis.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Let say if I have a famous French video, but unfortunately I don't understand French </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> language. If I am desperate to watch this video, the only option in hand is to search </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> for a dubbed version in English, as I can understand English. But what if the dubbed </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> movie is not available?? </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> So to help this situation out, I am planning to develop a plug-in which can be installed in</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">
any of the video players say VLC. The plug-in will then convert the audio from one language </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> to another. To accomplish this, I will use speech recognition to translate</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> the spoken words into text, say from French audio to French text.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Speech Synthesizer would be further used to convert text to speech (TTS). So the French text </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> is now converted to English text and which will further be converted to English audio using </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> TTS.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">
</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Challenge:</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> The main challenge would be to consider all the possible languages for translation and not </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> restricting this plug-in for particular language translation. </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">-> familiarity with the tools, infrastructure and concepts of the project</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Tools and knowledge required:</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Different API's which help in TTS and speech recognition.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new
york, times, serif"> Proficiency in Python and Java language.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> I am attending Natural Language Processing course from Coursera.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">-> how many hours per work will you be able to commit to your project?</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> I can give around 5-6 hours per day for the project. I am a student </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> and since I'll have summer vacations so it'll be easy to devote even more </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> if required in that
period.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">-> do you want to inform the project about any other commitments you have</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> I have enrolled myself in CISCO Certification training, I am a part of Artificial </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Intelligence group and Juvenile club in VIT.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Though I can handle these commitments efficiently, but I may divert from putting 5-6 hrs </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> only in case of any main examination. </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </font></div><div><font face="times new
roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">-> how will you adjust to a mentor who will be virtually present?</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> With technologies like Skype, Google+, Desktop Sharing tool I can easily catch up with my </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> mentor according to our conveniences.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">-> are you comfortable in English</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> I am Very comfortable and Proficient in Verbal and Written communication in English. </font></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family:
'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shikhar Sharma</div></div></div></body></html>