‘AKURU KARAMU’ ANDROID BASED SINHALA ALPHABET LEARNER FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS

Abstract

The recognition of online handwritten characters is known as one of an interesting research area. For the humans character recognition is trivial but to make a computer program to identify a character is difficult. Throughout this thesis Sinhala online character recognition using distance measures is discussed and an application of handwritten recognition has been introduced. Among the methods of the recognitions of characters distance measures can play tremendous role. Because of the diversity of the languages character recognition methodologies are never dying. As of today when considering the Sinhala language very limited work has been done for recognizing Sinhala characters. Character recognition is in the same sense of pattern recognition. Thesis has discussed about how a computer can identify each Sinhala character which user writes online correctly by using distance metric. Three distance measures are taken to compare and most suitable distance measure is proposed for online Sinhala character recognition by this research and also real time usable educational application for primary students has been introduced. Application is based on android platform. As the rapid advancement of the technology teaching methodology should need to be move with new technology. Students are increasingly modernized and updated their technological knowledge and they tend to use tablets, laptops and phones. Mobile games are most popular entertaining media among them. Not only mobile games but there are variety of educational application as well. To introduce new learning methodology for Sri Lankan students is one of major goal of this research work. Proposed application got good feedback after testing it with students and it has comparatively high recognition rate. By using proposed application students can practice their Sinhala letter writing in an interactive manner rather than using traditional way of writing. This will help students to spend their time in valuable manner moving with the technological advancements.