1. Toll bypass in IsiXhosa
Supervisor: Prof. W.D Tucker

2. Brief Recap
Why?
Expensive global system for mobile communication (GSM) call rates
Solution!
Toll bypass communication infrastructure for IsiXhosa
At no cost

3. How the System works Server Bypass Port > 1024 Client 2 connects
Listens to incoming connections
Receives the messages
Broadcasts them, on the tool

4. Changes Before After Store text in variable Store text in text file
Android (Allow conversions in phone)
PC system, conversions allowed in PC (due to capacity)
Connections separate
Both connect to the server (as clients)
Edit English Sphinx dictionary
Use isixhosa speech corpus from rma
No login activity
Login activity

5. Progress Made Server client connection established and,
Login/register as user
Convert text to speech
Convert speech to text

6. Tools Speect (Text to Speech) Sphinx (Speech to Text) C ++ Java
IsiXhosa Speech corpus
Internet Connection (Wired/Wireless)

7. Project Plan

8. References
Chapman, D. and Zwicky, E. (1995). Building Internet firewalls. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates.
Faqs.org. (2016). RFC File Transfer Protocol (RFC959). [online] Available at: