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Open Source Speech Recognition - With Source
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."
What is the problem? Speech recognition is a mature technology, and algorithms for speech recognition are well documented in the research journals. The federal government has long since stopped funding research into speech recognition.
If you want to code some speech recognition software for Linux, just get a good book on C# (which is an open standard, unlike Java) and photocopy some relevant papers from the IEEE Transaction journals.
You are a dumb ass. Not only did you not RTFA, you didn't even read the fucking summary.
LK
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Give it up. Java sucks and is dead and dying worse than BSD. Only loser programmers clinging to their shithole jobs still write in Java. I get Java losers coming over to me all the time asking how they can get into .NET. I just laugh at them. I tell them it is too late... they stayed in Java this long, and they are now un-employable. Good luck punks. LOL
Give it up. Java sucks and is dead and dying worse than BSD. Only loser programmers clinging to their shithole jobs still write in Java. I get Java losers coming over to me all the time asking how they can get into .NET. I just laugh at them. I tell them it is too late... they stayed in Java this long, and they are now un-employable. Good luck punks. LOL!
Because it isn't, Java is still one of the slowest languages in widespread use. I know you Java diehards want to believe its fast, but it isn't.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Give it up. Java sucks and is dead and dying worse than BSD. Only loser programmers clinging to their shithole jobs still write in Java. I get Java losers coming over to me all the time asking how they can get into .NET. I just laugh at them. I tell them it is too late... they stayed in Java this long, and they are now un-employable. Good luck punks. LOL...
Cheap, cheap link there. Did you read the terms?
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What is happening to this place? Has the price of crack fallen or something. Anyway I here you.
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.
So all the things that are great about java are the things that it doesn't have right now?