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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."
Ate lurks barry wall.
Quick someone port this to C.
"Open Source Speech Recognition - With Source"
"This release, unfortunately, doesn't include any source for the actual speech recognition engine."
Colloquially known as "pointer-envy", this condition may affect all programmers, but is especially prevalent in java and C# developers. It is most easily recognized in a release announcement, where for no reason whatsoever the afflicted developer suddenly interjects a statement like "and it's just as fast as C", to the bewilderment of the audience.
Treat suspected cases with caution, and under no condition contradict the patient. There is no known cure.
:wq
Given that there is already a rudimentary text-to-speech package available for Linux, and now a speech-to-text package, perhaps the secret is to pipe one to the other in a closed loop until one learns how to enunciate and the other how to listen?
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
Now my linux box can wreck a nice beach!
#include "humorous_pop_culture_reference.h"
From dept-of-redundancy-department?
I'm not one to be picky about titles, but sheesh...
Eef ya uses thees one ya'lls gonna hafta talks like dis heers.
Unfortunately, your professors didn't teach you a thing about scams. Stop promoting a pyramid scheme!
I think it's more likely that this will degenerate into some sort of c3po 'language' after a few passes: beep BOOP beep beep blip
-- the cake is a lie
Woman: [dictating into cell phone] To: Mike. I had fun last night.
Cell Phone: To: Mike. I have lip fungus.
Woman: [into cell phone, angrily] I had FUN, not lip fungus!
Cell Phone: I have fungus, not lip fungus.
Woman: I DON'T HAVE LIP FUNGUS!!!
Ba-dum-dum ding!
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
You know, when I was growing up, we had to do all this hand-writing practice and public-speaking stuff, and we had to write letters and use the phone for everything. Then came PCs and the internet and everything was done using computer forms, spreadsheets and email. So naturally, I forgot all my skills in handwriting and speaking in favor of typing and clicking.
Now, years later, I'm given Palmpilots that I must scribble on and PCs that I must talk to, and everything is in multimedia streaming audio and video, including emails... Would you people make up your minds already?! Do I learn to type and fill out forms, or do I learn to write, speak and listen?? Please, please, please pick one mode or the other and stick with it... Sheesh!
But I like my text-to-speech output when it sounds like a Berserker. -Goodlife
Stop the world; I need to get off.
You need review what you post when you hit "Preview." It should read: "This is Slashdot. If anyone got it, they probably shouldn't be here ;o)"
Resist! It's SUN trying to ruin Linux and OS again!
It even uses Java!!!! Slashbots must fight back!
"This data was collected on a dual CPU UltraSPARC(R)-III running at 1015 MHz with 2G of memory."
Looking at the performance data it just blazes along on that config. Not exactly what I'd call an embedable system, though Microsoft might beg to differ.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
Guess I won't be listening to music when root anymore. In fact I am sound proofing my room to keep the noises from infiltrating my microphone and causing me to accidently delete /home
many benchmarks have shown that a modern optimized JVM with JIT compilation is roughly equivalent with most implementations of C++, with some benchmarks being better for Java and some being better for C++.
And many studies have shown that going with Microsoft software is cheaper than going with open sourced software.
:wq
Open Source Speech Recognition - With Source
Does it come "with au jus sauce" ?
Would that make it "with with source source" ?
More creatively why not pioneer IP over voice. Then you could do IP over Voice over Voice over IP ... :)
In fact I suspect it sounds like a good RFC that could be released early next April. It would have to be an improvement over IP over Avain Carrier.
"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." -- G. K. Chesterton