About Us

Indian Languages Technology Research-Oriya (ILTR-Oriya) is a Research and Development
(R & D) Centre for Language Technology located at the Department of Computer Science and Application, Utkal University .

It undertakes R & D of broad categories of varied and multiple Indian languages and provides efficient technology solutions for these languages and major focal disciplines R&D include Intelligent Document Processing(OCR-Oriya),Natural Language Processing(NLP) and Speech Processing and Cross Lingual Information Access(CLIA) . The centre is one out of twelve other resource centres established by MIT, Government of India.

The OCR system provides a reliable and efficient technology for Oriya document image recognition and understanding. The approaches made guarantees very natural and humanistic art of pattern perception. Under NLP section are Oriya Wordnet(OriNet),Trilingual Dictionary, Spell and Grammar Checker , Morphological analyser which can help and faciliatate other areas of NLP. The speech technology include both text-to-speech(TTS) and Speech-to-text(STT). OCR system integrated with TTS system and speech system can jointly help blinds to hear the contents of a document.

Utkal University is one of the leading premier universities of India having a rich set of educational and cultural heritage. It is the 17th university of India. This University has 27 post graduate departments in which around 5 thousands study for their Post Graduate, Ph.D. and Post Doctoral degrees etc. Besides it has affiliated colleges which include Engineering, Medical and Law discipline also.