{"id":2229,"date":"2017-06-23T15:59:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T14:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2017-07-05T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T11:16:12","slug":"research-seminar-raj-ramachandran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/research-seminar-raj-ramachandran\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 28 June 2017 – Lunchtime Seminar with Raj Ramachandran (Computing, SHU)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Raj Ramachandran (C3RI PhD student and Associate Lecturer,\u00a0Computing)\u00a0<\/strong>
\nTitle:\u00a0\u2018Exploring\u00a0the Vedic concepts in determining requirements for a speech to text technology: The case of \u00a0Tamil Brahmans’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raj Ramachandran is in his final stages of PhD. His PhD research sets \u00a0focus on the user acceptance of speech to text in Tamil.\u00a0In this seminar, he aims to look into the relationship between the Vedas and accuracy of pronunciation, which is one of the three keys issues that is being investigated in the context of speech to text. The other two being the script complexity and code mixing factors.<\/p>\n

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Tamil Brahmins are relatively a\u00a0small community, comprising about 1.4 million in Tamil Nadu whom Fuller and Narasimhan refer to as an \u2018unusual social\u2019 group in their ethnographic study on Tamil Brahmans. In their work, they unfold how this social group, \u201csuffocated by tradition, not willing to let go of it either, these Brahmans, \u00a0try to do a tightrope walk: remain traditional, yet modern, remain distinct and a middle-class and remain progressive even while harbouring prejudices\u201d. While the ethnography brings out the essential aspects of lifestyle, culture, tradition and beliefs, it underscores the importance, culture and lifestyle play in dictating the requirements of a technology, at its inception or even at a conceptual level. This could inform \u00a0and help shape the \u00a0requirement and feasibility analysis, which is the first step in the software engineering lifecycle.\u00a0 The research work attempts to bring to surface subtle aspects of language, lifestyle, culture and tradition that could perhaps be determining factors of user acceptance of speech to text technology.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Veda<\/em>\u2019 in Sanskrit means knowledge. This seminar will explore the Vedic aspects relevant to the speech to text technology and explore the feasibility of emulating them in the context of computing, speech to text in particular.<\/p>\n

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1.00PM \u2013 2.00PM
\nWEDNESDAY 28 JUNE 2017
\nCANTOR 9128
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See here <\/a>for details of other seminars in the series.<\/p>\n

All SHU staff and students are welcome to attend the C3RI Lunchtime Research Seminars. If you are from outside of the University and would like to attend a seminar, please email C3RI Administrator<\/a> to arrange entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Raj Ramachandran (C3RI PhD student and Associate Lecturer,\u00a0Computing)\u00a0 Title:\u00a0\u2018Exploring\u00a0the Vedic concepts in determining requirements for a speech to text technology: The case of \u00a0Tamil Brahmans’ Raj Ramachandran is in his final stages of PhD. His PhD research sets \u00a0focus on the user acceptance of speech to text in Tamil.\u00a0In this seminar, he aims to look into the relationship between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"featured_media":2232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[183,103],"tags":[6,151,185,400],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doctoral-research","category-events","tag-communication-and-computing-research-centre","tag-computing-research","tag-phd-students","tag-raj-ramachandran"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/06\/2017-28-06-RAMACHANDRAN-Raj-speech-to-text-technology.jpg?fit=860%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-zX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2525,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/phd-student-honoured-tamil-university\/","url_meta":{"origin":2229,"position":0},"title":"Computing PhD student honoured at Tamil University, Thanjavur, India","author":"Rachel Finch","date":"01\/09\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In a recent visit to Tamil Nadu, India for a conference and data collection field work, Computing\u00a0PhD student Vigneshraj Ramachandran Subramanian\u00a0was invited to deliver a guest lecture in his area of research. 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