Tigrinya TTS docs

Author: biniamgebremichael

docs/Symposium/index.md

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 # Tigrinya Digital Initiatives
 
+#
 
-
-SeReT Foundation Language Team together with :
-1. USLA Institute for Digital Research & Education,
-2. USLA African Studies Center and 
-3. Stanford Language Center’s African and Middle Eastern Program
+[SeReT Foundation](https://www.seretfoundation.org/) Language Team  together with :
+1. [USLA Institute for Digital Research & Education](https://idre.ucla.edu/),
+2. [USLA African Studies Center](https://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/home) and 
+3. [Stanford Language Center’s African and Middle Eastern Program](https://language.stanford.edu/programs-languages/african-and-middle-eastern-languages)
 
 presented a virtual Tigrinya Language Digital Initiatives Symposium.
 
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 communities.
 
 
-## Thursday, June 16, 2022 
-1. Keynote: Courage, Excellence, Equity, and Joy: Dr. Aida Habtezion, M.D., MSc, FRCPC,
+### Day 1
+1. **Keynote: Courage, Excellence, Equity, and Joy**: Dr. Aida Habtezion, M.D., MSc, FRCPC,
 AGAF. Chief Medical Officer and Head of Worldwide Medical & Safety at Pfizer
-2. Tigrinya in Google Translate - Experience and Lesson Learned: Dr. Biniam Gebremichael,
+2. **Tigrinya in Google Translate - Experience and Lesson Learned** : Dr. Biniam Gebremichael,
 Language team lead at SeReT Foundation
-3. Tigrinya Language Digitization - Past, Present, and Future: Yemane Russom, Founder at
+3. **Tigrinya Language Digitization - Past, Present, and Future** : Yemane Russom, Founder at
 Geezsoft and Phonetic Systems
-4. An Exploration of Data Augmentation Techniques for Improving English to Tigrinya
-Translation: Lidia Tesfahiwet Kidane, PhD candidate at Umeå University with Sachin
+4. **An Exploration of Data Augmentation Techniques for Improving English to Tigrinya
+Translation** : Lidia Tesfahiwet Kidane, PhD candidate at Umeå University with Sachin
 Kumar and Yulia Tsvetkov
 
-## Friday, June 17, 2022
-1. Tigrinya NLP research at Mainefhi College of Engineering and Technology: Challenges
-and Opportunities: Dr. Yemane Keleta, Head of Department at Mainefhi College of
+### Day 2
+1. **Tigrinya NLP research at Mainefhi College of Engineering and Technology : Challenges
+and Opportunities** : Dr. Yemane Keleta, Head of Department at Mainefhi College of
 Engineering and Technology
-2. Design of Portable Tigrigna Reader with OCR and TTS and the new prepared Tigrigna
-Corpus: Sham Asgedom Keleta, Engineer at ENF, with Amanuel Teweldebrhan Yehaish
-3. Tigrinya OCR: A solution for enriching our digital literature: Aaron Afewerki, Engineer at
+2. **Design of Portable Tigrigna Reader with OCR and TTS and the new prepared Tigrigna
+Corpus** : Sham Asgedom Keleta, Engineer at ENF, with Amanuel Teweldebrhan Yehaish
+3. **Tigrinya OCR: A solution for enriching our digital literature** : Aaron Afewerki, Engineer at
 MaiNefhi College of Engineering and Technology, with Abiel Tesfamichael, Danait
 Weldu, Robel Estifanos, and Tesfana Tekeste
-4. Geez Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Tesfalem Belay, Manager at TES IT Solutions,
+4. **Geez Optical Character Recognition (OCR)** : Tesfalem Belay, Manager at TES IT Solutions,
 with Ebtisam Hussien
-5. Graph-Theoretic Concepts and the Fidel Writing System: Dr. Ghidewon Abay Asmerom,
+5. **Graph-Theoretic Concepts and the Fidel Writing System** : Dr. Ghidewon Abay Asmerom,
 Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics,
 Virginia Commonwealth University
 
-## Saturday, June 18 2022
-1. Joint CTC With Attention Based End-to-End Speaker Independent ASR For Tigrinya
-Language: Bereket Desbele Ghebregiorgis, Engineer at Mai Nefhi college of Engineering
+### Day 3
+1. **Joint CTC With Attention Based End-to-End Speaker Independent ASR For Tigrinya
+Language** : Bereket Desbele Ghebregiorgis, Engineer at Mai Nefhi college of Engineering
 and Technology, with Yonatan Yosef, Mebrahtu Fisshaye, Mussie Kaleab, Ahmed Idris,
 Rutta Fissehatsion and Daniel Tesfai
-2. Voice to Text Recognition For Tigrinya: Filmon Hagos Gebreyesus, PhD Candidate at
+2. **Voice to Text Recognition For Tigrinya** : Filmon Hagos Gebreyesus, PhD Candidate at
 Middle Tennessee State University
-3. Building a Speech and Text Corpus for Tigrinya: Bereket Weldemichael Gebreyonas,
+3. **Building a Speech and Text Corpus for Tigrinya** : Bereket Weldemichael Gebreyonas,
 Engineer at ENF, with Lamek Russom and Simon Mahari
-4. Spelling Checker for Tigrinya: Simon Mebrahtu, Developer Language Team at SeReT
+4. **Spelling Checker for Tigrinya** : Simon Mebrahtu, Developer Language Team at SeReT
 Foundation, with Biniam Gebremichael and Ermias Zerazion.
-5. Building Tigrinya Thesaurus and Bible study resource using Strong"s Concordance:
+5. **Building Tigrinya Thesaurus and Bible study resource using Strong"s Concordance** :
 Ermias Zerazion, Developer Language Team at SeReT Foundation, with Abel Zerazion
 
-## Sunday, June 19 2022
-1. Tigrinya and the Arts: Ariam Woldeab, Author, Movie Producer, Director, and Storyteller
-2. Crowdsourcing Eritrean Language-Packs: Kokob Weldetensae, Engineer at Meadi
+### Day 4
+1. **Tigrinya and the Arts**: Ariam Woldeab, Author, Movie Producer, Director, and Storyteller
+2. **Crowdsourcing Eritrean Language-Packs** : Kokob Weldetensae, Engineer at Meadi
 Translation, with Filimon Hagos, Stella Mehari, Philipos Hailemichael, Adonai Solomon
 and Abraham Negash
-3. Large Pre-trained Language Models for Tigrinya: Fitsum Gaim, PhD Candidate at Korea
+3. **Large Pre-trained Language Models for Tigrinya** : Fitsum Gaim, PhD Candidate at Korea
 Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
-4. Information Retrieval for Amharic and Tigrinya Languages: Dr. Biniam Gebremichael,
+4. **Information Retrieval for Amharic and Tigrinya Languages** : Dr. Biniam Gebremichael,
 Language Team Lead at SeReT Foundation
 
 for more - go to the symposium website at [tigrinyadigitalinitiatives.org](https://tigrinyadigitalinitiatives.org/)