Indic Keyboard v3 released.🎉
In this major release, we added support for more indic language dictionaries, updated emoji set and we fixed lot of bugs. We thank our community for the engagements and contributions, @jishnu for leading the project and Hiran Venugopalan for our brand new logo.
Indic Keyboard is available to download from both F-Droid and Google play store.
Watch Indic Keyboard in action: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xLfVJ4ifJHs
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.smc.inputmethod.indic/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic
https://blog.smc.org.in/indic-keyboard-v3/
Up till now, our primary focus was to document our activities as monthly activity reports on blog.smc.org.in.
We have decided to extend the boundaries of documentation to community efforts from today onwards.
If you or your organisation's FOSS or Indic Language project wants to get featured in our monthly activity report, do submit a post at https://discourse.indicproject.org/c/smc/monthly-community-submissions.
Don't forget to include a date/timeline and a write up !
Portal to help learn to write Malayalam script, foreign word detection in mlmorph, @signal
localized to Malayalam and more.
Read our monthly activity report for October 2020
Clarifying SMC's 15+ years of work in Rachana's 20 years of existence in the context of sustained misinformation. Further development of Rachana, Meera, Keraleeyam, Uroob and Meera Inimai fonts are on hold until the issues resolves amicably.
As an organization primarily working on accessibility and Lanugage computing, We are publishing our letter to @CMOKerala
and Law Min. Sri. AK Balan expressing our concern regarding the amendment to the Kerala Police Act, 2011.
https://blog.smc.org.in/statement-on-proposed-amendment-of-kerala-police-act-118-a-and-its-implications/
Malayalam Machine Translation, OSM Activities and More: SMC Monthly Updates September 2020
https://blog.smc.org.in/smc-monthly-report-september-2020/
Released Indic Keyboard v3, MSC, Varnam Editor on flatpak, Partnered with fosshack, New version of Manjari, Malayalam spellchecker, Mapping parties, release file server, New tools such as Entechil, conjunct finder and more.
Another busy month for SMC. Read full report for Auguest 2020: https://blog.smc.org.in/smc-monthly-report-august-2020/
A Quantitative Analysis of The Morphological Complexity of Malayalam - @kavya_manohar discussing her paper accepted for 23rd International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue in detail.
https://blog.smc.org.in/malayalam-morphological-complexity/
@kavya_manohar @santhoshtr Gender diversity of the Malayalam Speech Corpus (as per the optionally self-declared data from the contributors)
@kavya_manohar @santhoshtr The current release contains 1541 speech samples from 75 contributors amounting to 1:38:16 hours of speech. It has 482 unique sentences, 1400 unique words, 553 unique syllables and 48 unique phonemes
Today, We are releasing MSC - A curated repository of Malayalam speech samples.
The corpus is available at msc.smc.org.in
We Thank @kavya_manohar
for curating the corpus, @santhoshtr for voice collection app and all all our contributors
Manjari's 4th Anniversary, Mozilla Fenix Localization Drive and More: Updates for July 2020
https://blog.smc.org.in/smc-monthly-report-july-2020/
Digital rights organisations Rethink Aadhaar, Article 21 Trust, Internet Freedom Foundation, SFLC.in and SMC endorse a legal notice sent to the Government of Kerala by Bezwada Wilson and Kalyani Menon-Sen,
Indic Keyboard v3 released.🎉
In this major release, we added support for more indic language dictionaries, updated emoji set and we fixed lot of bugs. We thank our community for the engagements and contributions, @jishnu for leading the project and Hiran Venugopalan for our brand new logo.
Indic Keyboard is available to download from both F-Droid and Google play store.
Watch Indic Keyboard in action: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xLfVJ4ifJHs
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.smc.inputmethod.indic/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic
https://blog.smc.org.in/indic-keyboard-v3/
Activity report for the month of June is out.
Read from here: https://blog.smc.org.in/smc-monthly-report-june-2020/
Humans of SMC talk show, Digital literacy program and more. Read SMC activity report of May.
Long term SMC contributor Rajeesh K.V( @rajeesh ) recalls his FOSS journey. He also talks about the milestones in Malayalam font technology, hurdles we crossed, and the road forward.
Organizations on #KeepItOn network including SMC released a resolution calls on the WHO to ask India, Pakistan, Myanmar and Bangladesh to end the Internet shutdown in the wake of #COVID19.
https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton-open-letter-who-governments-end-shutdowns-amid-covid-19/
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