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Project Ideas

Shrinivasan T edited this page Nov 25, 2018 · 12 revisions

Easy

  1. Build a reading club on Free Culture
  2. Upload data about FreeTamilEbooks.com to goodreads.com
  3. Upload all FreeTamilEbooks.com to Google Books
  4. Add all nodes and lines on OpenStreetMap.org for Tamilnadu
  5. Translate all Tamil Nadu related strings in OpenStreetMap.org
  6. Tamil Podcasts with CC license

Intermediate

  1. Web/Mobile application to record audio for wiktionary
  2. Tamil Stories in Google Home and Alexa devices
  3. Web application for Tamil TTS
  4. Web application for Ebooks Publishing
  5. Web Application for OCR
  6. Tamil Typing tutor online - Improve this - https://medium.com/@srikanthl/idea-visaipazhagu-a-web-based-typing-tutor-d447517dd3b2 - https://jsfiddle.net/logicjs/4qLnywz5/
  7. Web/Mobile app to Teach Tamil letters - http://www.thamizham.net/kal/ttenglish/cards32-u8.htm - http://tshrinivasan.blogspot.com/2015/03/blog-post_9.html
  8. wordpress to android app convertor – Why cant we convert a wordpress site as android app with RSS feeds?
  9. blog to epub convertor – fix, add images Here is a basic application on rails https://github.com/sathia27/blog2ebook Add a feature to download images and add them to ebooks.
  10. epub to apk convertor – Let us publish ebooks as mobile apps too.
  11. setup ELK for tamil literature search, build a search engine on top of it. Explore using ElasticSearch and Kibana for Tamil Text analysis.
  12. Analyse tamil tv/radio show audio, find how many english words are used/hour This paper may help https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf https://mail.python.org/pipermail/chennaipy/2017-March/001429.html Contact Ganesh for python implementation of this algo
  13. Firefox plugin for tamil wikisource proofreading Tamil wikisource is having around 2000 public domain ebooks, OCRed by google OCR. We have to proofread those books manually. QuickWikiEditor is a Firefox plugin that enables on the page editing of wiki content. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quickwikieditor/

Need to extend this plugin, to send the error words and the corrected words to a remote web application. From there,
we can get the list of error words, search for them in entire ta.wikisource.org, replace with the corrected words
automatically using bots.

Extend the plugin and create a web application to get the words collection from the plugin.

  1. Custom data updater for maps.me mobile app - https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2018/02/12/project-idea-custom-data-updater-for-maps-me-mobile-app/

Highly Challenged

  1. Build a stemmer/lemmer for Tamil - Find root word
  2. Build a Tamil Spell checker
  3. Reformat Ta.wiktionary.org for easy access via API
  4. create a website like grammarly.com for easy tamil typing without errors
  5. Website to teach tamil letters like https://aamozish.com/Course_preface
  6. FlipBoard like application for Tamil Flipboard is a web, mobile app which gives latest content on user selected topics. Create such application for providing tamil content from web on various topics. Content contributors should give links for good articles with relevant categories, tags. Users should subscribe to categories and read the latest content.
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