<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Ray, thanks for your email request. I hope by now someone has positively responded with some useful information.<div><br></div><div>I just want to draw your attention to a technology conference happening this year in Portland Oregon USA. It might be of interest to you and your efforts. In particular pay attention to the Special Sessions which might address some of your concerns.</div><div><br></div><div><div id="location">
<div id="location-title">13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association</div>
<div id="location-date">September 9-13, 2012</div>
<div id="location-location">Portland, Oregon</div><div id="location-location"><a href="http://interspeech2012.org/Special.html">http://interspeech2012.org/Special.html</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 19, 2012, at 7:47 AM, Ray wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear all!</div><div>I hope this email finds you well.</div><div>My name is Raymond from Nairobi Kenya.</div><div>As part of my Msc project, I am interested in developing a text to speech tool for a local indegenous language here in east africa. Its called luhya and has 24 dialects spoken by the 24 subtribes in Westerns Kenya and Eastern Uganda. </div> <div> </div><div>With this, I would like to achieve the following goals, among many others:</div><div> </div><div>1. Use this tool to help village populations, who can't read and write to access basic knowledge and materials in civil matters (e.g HIV and aids awareness.</div> <div>2. Help indegenous people who cant read and write to access national news in print (these are usually in English)</div><div>3. Assist the blind in the villages easly access information on various matters that is usually in print.</div> <div>4. Assist teaches in overpopulated rural classrooms in remote schools to easily dictate class notes to their students.</div><div> </div><div>I would be very greatful if anyone of you has any ideas that would help to contribute towards this project. My email address is <a href="mailto:ray.simbi@gmail.com">ray.simbi@gmail.com</a>.</div> <div> </div><div>Thanks and Regards,</div><div>Ray.</div><div> </div><div> </div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>