Speech recognition in agriculture and finance for the poor in india

SPEECH RECOGNITION IN AGRICULTURE AND FINANCE FOR THE POOR IN INDIA CLICK HERE TO APPLY NOW SPIRE LAB, IISc, has taken initiative to create resources for speech technology development such as automatic speech recognition (ASR). There are job opportunities in this project in the position of Content Writer Job Profile Name Content Writer- (Part-time) Skills/ requirements Basic Computer Knowledge and typing skills Having a degree in English/language-related course or program is a plus Must have their Laptop / Desktop at home. Must have good knowledge of google docs Should have good internet connectivity. Experienced persons will get a priority Job Location This work can be done from anywhere. Qualification Undergraduate, Graduate, Post Graduate can apply. Freshers and experienced both can apply for this job. Basic remuneration Rs 10,000/- per month Job description and responsibility A set of topics and rough write-ups will be given to you. The task will be to present that content in a story format. Good proficiency in the English language to check the quality of writing provided. The story must be presented in a format such that it is improvising to common people. Every day you have to dedicate 2-3 hours to writing. An interested candidate needs to go through a pilot task and will be selected for the job only if they are found to perform satisfactorily. Selection Process Selection of the writer will happen through a pilot writing task related to this project. Special Note The...

1.5 Conclusion 3 Minutes Speech on Agriculture Good Evening Ladies and gentlemen. I am here before you today to present the speech on agriculture. Agriculture is the backbone sector of the Indian economy and also to many countries. It is practiced in our country for thousands of years. Over a period of time, it has developed a lot. Now in this modern era, the use of new technologies and equipment have replaced almost all the traditional methods of farming. This Agricultural evolution not only contributed to the growth of itself but also of the other sector of the country. Source: en.wikipedia.org India largely depends on the agriculture sector. Although for thousands of years, we are practicing agriculture still, it remained under-developed for a long time. But we are trying our best. Like post-independence, we use to import food grains from other countries to fulfill our demand. But, after the green revolution, we become self-sufficient and started exporting our surplus to other countries. We use to depend completely on monsoon for the cultivation of food grains but now we have constructed dams, canals, tube-wells, and pump-sets. Also, nowadays we have a better variety of fertilizers, pesticides, and seeds, which help us to grow more food in comparison to what we used to produce during old times. After the green revolution, our agriculture sector has grown stronger than many countries and we are the largest exporter of many food grains. Significance of Agriculture The agr...

LinkedIn and 3rd parties use essential and non-essential cookies to provide, secure, analyze and improve our Services, and to show you relevant ads (including professional and job ads) on and off LinkedIn. Learn more in our Select Accept to consent or Reject to decline non-essential cookies for this use. You can update your choices at any time in your Crowd-sourcing for maithili speech voice bot development Contributors from Darbhanga & Madhubani urgently needed! Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and Center for Studies of Tradition and Systems (CSTS) are in search of native maithili language speakers from Darbhanga & Madhubani (can be non residents too) to compose traditional and contemporary sentences against given topics in maithili. The sentences will be used for IISc’s RESPIN Project which is being run to spur research and innovation in speech recognition in maithili (and eight other Indian Languages). The compilation will be used to train AI/ML models to build voice bots & voice asistants bringing maithili to smartphones. Contributors will be paid a fee of INR 25000/- for composing & submitting 5000 quality sentences in the local dialect of Darbhanga and Madhubani. We expect the work to be done in 2-4 weeks. Contributors are requested to be a part of this project being run for the welfare and digitalization of our mother tongue. Eligibility : Contributors must have passed intermediate, have good knowledge of the local dialect of Darbhanga-Madhubani and wri...

Article by Lennart Båge, President of IFAD published in Uluslararasi Ekonomik Sorunlar, a bi-monthly journal of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ever since Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below," there has been a surge in world attention on microfinance and its power to fight poverty. Recently, microfinance has also been attracting the attention of the private sector. In December, Deutsche Bank released an in-depth study of microfinance as an emerging investment opportunity for private sector investors. Then in January, Forbes magazine came out with a list of the 50 top microfinance institutions. The Forbes magazine rankings and the Deutsche Bank report underscore the fact that microfinance has moved beyond the fringes of financial services. Over the decades, microfinance has demonstrated that poor people are viable financial-service customers. As a result, the borders between traditional microfinance and the larger financial system are starting to blur. At the grassroots level, microfinance institutions (MFIs) are expanding their reach, while commercial banks and other formal financial institutions are increasingly moving into rural areas to reach poorer and more remote clients. For example, the ICICI Bank, India's second-largest bank, has opened more than 2,000 rural internet kiosks that will provide financial services throughout India. Brazil's Caixa E...

Speech is the most desirable medium of communication between humans. The goal of speech processing is to provide natural interfaces to human –computer interaction through speech input and speech output capabilities in Regional languages. Speech being a natural mode of communication among human beings has the potential of being primary as well as convenient mode of interaction with computers. It is desirable to have a human computer dialogue in audio mode to take place in local language. Marathi is one of most widely used language in Maharashtra. The Interactive Voice response system is well known application of speech processing. This paper explores a new approach of IVRS system for agricultural assistance to farmers in Marathi. Speech recognition has become a foundation of self-service interactive voice response (IVR) user interfaces. The speech recognition and IVR applications found to be cost-effective and the user friendly, speediest self-service alternative to speaking with a contact centre agent. The concept of making advanced systems reach up to rural level and solve the problem of communication gap is the main problem addressed in this paper. With improvements in " Speech Recognition " and IVRS providing 24/7 services, objective is to develop an IVRS in Marathi Language that can be useful for agricultural purpose, for rural area people. This can be done by considering specific, pre-decided Marathi Language sentences for IVR based agricultural commodity price inform...

Kalyani (West Bengal), Jan 16 (PTI) Two institutes of the country have teamed up to develop a speech recognition app that will help less educated people of West Bengal understand different aspects of agriculture and economy in their own dialects. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT) said it is collaborating with Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, to bring out the app which will be used by people for free. “Initially, about 12 dialects from North Bengal and South Bengal are considered for this research,” the head of the MAKAUT Technology Cell, Pritimoy Sanyal, said. The whole research work is divided into two parts. One part is collecting words used on agriculture and economy in various dialects and the other one is making the computer understand them with artificial intelligence (AI), he said. After the project is complete, people can ask questions on agriculture and economy in their dialect through the app and get replies in the same dialect. “This is the first such work on Bengali dialects,” Sanyal said. MAKAUT Vice-Chancellor Saikat Maitra said that a committee with experts in Bengali language has been formed to help scientists develop the app. “Since we are trying to include almost all Bengali dialects in this app, we may also think about those used in Bangladesh in future,” Mitra said. While the majority of the Indian people are dependent on agriculture, a large part of them are not educated enough to understand information on the sect...

Article by Lennart Båge, President of IFAD published in Uluslararasi Ekonomik Sorunlar, a bi-monthly journal of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ever since Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below," there has been a surge in world attention on microfinance and its power to fight poverty. Recently, microfinance has also been attracting the attention of the private sector. In December, Deutsche Bank released an in-depth study of microfinance as an emerging investment opportunity for private sector investors. Then in January, Forbes magazine came out with a list of the 50 top microfinance institutions. The Forbes magazine rankings and the Deutsche Bank report underscore the fact that microfinance has moved beyond the fringes of financial services. Over the decades, microfinance has demonstrated that poor people are viable financial-service customers. As a result, the borders between traditional microfinance and the larger financial system are starting to blur. At the grassroots level, microfinance institutions (MFIs) are expanding their reach, while commercial banks and other formal financial institutions are increasingly moving into rural areas to reach poorer and more remote clients. For example, the ICICI Bank, India's second-largest bank, has opened more than 2,000 rural internet kiosks that will provide financial services throughout India. Brazil's Caixa E...

1.5 Conclusion 3 Minutes Speech on Agriculture Good Evening Ladies and gentlemen. I am here before you today to present the speech on agriculture. Agriculture is the backbone sector of the Indian economy and also to many countries. It is practiced in our country for thousands of years. Over a period of time, it has developed a lot. Now in this modern era, the use of new technologies and equipment have replaced almost all the traditional methods of farming. This Agricultural evolution not only contributed to the growth of itself but also of the other sector of the country. Source: en.wikipedia.org India largely depends on the agriculture sector. Although for thousands of years, we are practicing agriculture still, it remained under-developed for a long time. But we are trying our best. Like post-independence, we use to import food grains from other countries to fulfill our demand. But, after the green revolution, we become self-sufficient and started exporting our surplus to other countries. We use to depend completely on monsoon for the cultivation of food grains but now we have constructed dams, canals, tube-wells, and pump-sets. Also, nowadays we have a better variety of fertilizers, pesticides, and seeds, which help us to grow more food in comparison to what we used to produce during old times. After the green revolution, our agriculture sector has grown stronger than many countries and we are the largest exporter of many food grains. Significance of Agriculture The agr...

Kalyani (West Bengal), Jan 16 (PTI) Two institutes of the country have teamed up to develop a speech recognition app that will help less educated people of West Bengal understand different aspects of agriculture and economy in their own dialects. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT) said it is collaborating with Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, to bring out the app which will be used by people for free. “Initially, about 12 dialects from North Bengal and South Bengal are considered for this research,” the head of the MAKAUT Technology Cell, Pritimoy Sanyal, said. The whole research work is divided into two parts. One part is collecting words used on agriculture and economy in various dialects and the other one is making the computer understand them with artificial intelligence (AI), he said. After the project is complete, people can ask questions on agriculture and economy in their dialect through the app and get replies in the same dialect. “This is the first such work on Bengali dialects,” Sanyal said. MAKAUT Vice-Chancellor Saikat Maitra said that a committee with experts in Bengali language has been formed to help scientists develop the app. “Since we are trying to include almost all Bengali dialects in this app, we may also think about those used in Bangladesh in future,” Mitra said. While the majority of the Indian people are dependent on agriculture, a large part of them are not educated enough to understand information on the sect...

SPEECH RECOGNITION IN AGRICULTURE AND FINANCE FOR THE POOR IN INDIA CLICK HERE TO APPLY NOW SPIRE LAB, IISc, has taken initiative to create resources for speech technology development such as automatic speech recognition (ASR). There are job opportunities in this project in the position of Content Writer Job Profile Name Content Writer- (Part-time) Skills/ requirements Basic Computer Knowledge and typing skills Having a degree in English/language-related course or program is a plus Must have their Laptop / Desktop at home. Must have good knowledge of google docs Should have good internet connectivity. Experienced persons will get a priority Job Location This work can be done from anywhere. Qualification Undergraduate, Graduate, Post Graduate can apply. Freshers and experienced both can apply for this job. Basic remuneration Rs 10,000/- per month Job description and responsibility A set of topics and rough write-ups will be given to you. The task will be to present that content in a story format. Good proficiency in the English language to check the quality of writing provided. The story must be presented in a format such that it is improvising to common people. Every day you have to dedicate 2-3 hours to writing. An interested candidate needs to go through a pilot task and will be selected for the job only if they are found to perform satisfactorily. Selection Process Selection of the writer will happen through a pilot writing task related to this project. Special Note The...