Re: [Varnamproject-discuss] Varnam GSOC ideas

[Navaneeth K N]

We learned more words in Kannada. The whole wikipedia dump was fed into varnam. 
I haven’t released it yet.

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Navaneeth



> On 13-Feb-2015, at 10:48 am, Kevin Martin <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 21 Gb? That's way too much! But how come Kannada take so much space when 
> malayalam is less than 1 Gb?
> 
> But I think we should get varnam into mobile. That will result in the project 
> getting the popularity it deserves.
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> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Navaneeth K N <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Yes. That is a good idea. But it is usable only till varnam gets all the 
> language support. I think as part of GSOC, we should target for something 
> which can serve long term. Like the stemmer implementation.
> 
> I was thinking getting varnam into mobile space and integrate it with Indic 
> keyboard a new varnam keyboard altogether. What do you think about this?
> 
> Or rewrite the learning algorithm so that learned data takes less space. This 
> is critical when getting into the mobile space and offline editing. 
> Currently, Kannada learned file takes about 21Gb of space.
> 
> thoughts?
> 
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> Navaneeth
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> > On 12-Feb-2015, at 9:20 pm, Kevin Martin <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering about a few project ideas related to varnam for students 
> > this year. When soorej and I was working on the inscript support soorej had 
> > to modify the scheme file. He mentioned that it would be nice if we had a 
> > GUI tool that makes it easy to write the scheme file. Can this be a GSOC 
> > project idea, perhaps of a lower priority? Maybe we can add a few more 
> > related tasks to this.
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