IITM Acharya

Can you give me some history of the Acharya project of the IITM? Tell me about the Lessons which are included in the Acharya project also? I am curious in the knowing about this project. My friend told me about this project but I don’t know much about it.

Hii sir, I Wants to get the Information About the Acharya IIT Madras Software Will you Please Provide It ?

[pawan]

About the Acharya IIT Madras Software

The set of computer programs developed at the Systems Development Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras, India, go by the name IITM Software. The software permits the development of applications supporting multilingual user interfaces in all the Indian languages.

Classification of the Software

Multilingual text and document preparation packages under different operating systems .

Conversion utilities to handle text files prepared using other applications such as ISCII or Unicode based word processors, transliterated text etc..

A set of applications to prepare documents for display on the world wide web. These include utilities which can generate graphical images, PDF files, PostScript files etc., from text files prepared using the Multilingual editor.

A set of applications consistent with linguistic processing of text in Indian languages. These include akshara and word frequency count programs, sorting, indexing and concordance generation utilities and search engines for use with the web.

Indian language based command processors which are similar to a DOS or Unix shell. Users not knowing English may use these programs and learn to use computers.

Role of the Software
Systems Development Laboratory, IIT Madras has been fortunate in being able to extend some help, minimal as it is, to the Visually Handicapped in India. That "Sound" is the basis of any language has led the lab to design computer applications which feature text to speech output.

For more Information you may Contact to the IIT Madras the Contact Details Are given below

Contact Details
IIT Madras
Address: Sardar Patel Road, Opposite to C, L.R.I, Adyar, Indian Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036
Phone: 044 2257 8101