Hewlett-Packard is celebrating the 10th anniversary of HP Labs in India. Established in February 2002, HP Labs focuses on creating technology and solutions that help bridge the digital divide by enabling access to IT using intuitive and natural computing solutions and novel technology and business paradigms. The initial research efforts were aimed at simplifying internet access, speech and gesture based communication interfaces and new software and hardware based models for natural interaction with IT interfaces and devices.
“This milestone we are celebrating is about more than retrospection. HP Labs India is at the intersection of the present and the future. India is one of the world’s largest sources of human potential. At the same time, Information Technology (IT) is one of the world’s best mechanisms for maximizing human potential. HP Labs India is bringing these two forces together in ways that are powerful and productive,” noted Chandrakant D. Patel HP Senior Fellow and Director (interim) HP Labs.
Some of the notable achievements include the first-ever effort to create world class handwriting recognition, speech recognition and speech synthesis technologies for Indian languages, which aimed to address the language barrier in India to IT adoption. In 2007, Lipi Toolkit, a toolkit to simplify the creation of handwriting recognition for phonetic based scripts and released by HP as open source averaged over 30,000 downloads per month.
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