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Open Source Speech Recognition - With Source

Posted by timothy on from the what-I-hear-you-saying-is dept.

Paul Lamere writes " This story on ZD-Net and this recent story on Slashdot describes the recent open sourcing of IBM's voice recognition software. This release, unfortunately, doesn't include any source for the actual speech recognition engine. Olaf Schmidt, a developer on the KDE Accessibility Project , is quoted as saying 'There is no speech-recognition system available for Linux, which is a big gap.' In an attempt to close this gap, we have just released Sphinx-4, a state-of-the-art, speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system written entirely in the Java programming language. It was created by researchers and engineers from Sun, CMU, MERL, HP, MIT and UCSC. Despite (or because of) being written in the Java programming language, Sphinx-4 performs as well as similar systems written in C. Here are the release notes and some performance data."

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  1. Re:Interesting side note by papercrane · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Cheap, cheap link there. Did you read the terms?

    1. Receipt of Product
    (a) Gratis Internet does not guarantee receipt of any product regardless of offers completed or referrals accumulated.

  2. Re:withOUT source surely? by ratpack91 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yup I'm sincerely sorry about the mods around here. Your parent gets +1 Informative and +1 insightful while you get flamebait!!!???

    What is happening to this place? Has the price of crack fallen or something. Anyway I here you.

  3. Re:But what about text to speech? by merdark · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    By we I assume you mean "the open source community" and the answer is "when you get off your ass and code it".

    This comment is great. The arrogance of many open source people astounds me.

    Non-programmer: Hey, I switch to this open source stuff which you say is better. It's cool, but it really needs feature X.

    Arrogant-open-source-programmer: That's the beuty of open source. You can get off your ass and code it yourself!

    Outcome: Non-programmer can't code it. Arrogant-open-source-programmer continues to scratch his itch. As a result, we have 10 thousand poor ass themes and numerous barely functional programs for each task. But what would be best is at least ONE good, working, application for each task.

    So to you a "community" is a bunch of people who only do things which they themselves want and never help each other? Weird.