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Open Source Speech Recognition
bedahr writes "The first version of the open source speech recognition suite simon was released.
It uses the Julius large vocabulary continuous speech recognition to do the actual recognition and the HTK toolkit to maintain the language model.
These components are united under an easy-to-use graphical user interface.
Simon can import dictionaries directly from wiktionary (a subproject of wikipedia) or from files formated in the HADIFIX- or HTK format and grammar structures directly from personal texts.
It also provides means to train the language model with new samples and add new words."
No it's not - Wiktionary is a sister project of Wikipedia. Not a subproject.
However, I must concur that in my experience speech recognition has been extremely patchy. While using it to issue voice commands is OK (and can be a real time-saver as it avoids going into Start, /Applications, Programs menu etc), dictation tends to be pretty rubbish. Especially when you're demonstrating the new speech recognition abilities in Windows Vista and just happen to work for Microsoft. And be in a loud, echoey expo hall. And using a dodgy mike.
Those using pirated Tinysoft signatures(TM) are a real threat to society and should all be thrown in jail.
This is actually the simon approach does: the magic keyword is "simon". "simon Firefox" for example. -- bedahr
You might want to have a look at the voxforge project
And this doesn't require changes in the algorithm - just in the model.
-- bedahr
We are sorry that there is no international homepage for this yet.
BUT: you are strongly encouraged to contact me with any questions: grasch < at > simon-listens.org
-- Peter
Simon is in no way connected to Microsoft.
Simon does NOT contain the HTK toolkit - it meerly executes commands.
HTK is free of charge and open source (in the strict sense of you-can-look-at-the-code). It is, however, not "free".
We are aware of that and have not packaged any parts of HTK for the release - you have to download it yourself if you want to modify the model from within simon.
It is not optimal, but we don't have the knowledge and / or manpower to code up something similar in a reasonable timeframe. And after all, it isn't that big of a deal, is it?
-- bedahr
Basically it comes from a live voice recognition demo from Microsoft for their feature in Vista. Yes, I had to look this up myself.
Your CPU is not doing anything else, at least do something.
simon is open source.
julius is open source.
htk is *NOT* open source.
The latter is a micro$oft by-product, as clearly shown by the license that you have to first agree with and then send your email to them in order to download the tarballs...
myself never done this since 1995.
If you follow the link to the Sourceforge project and look at any of the screenshots (including the one on the front page--at the time when I visited it, anyway), you'll see that they're actually training the software with German. So, it looks like the answer to your question is, yes, it supports more than English.
R.Mo