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Open Source Speech Recognition

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hello-computer dept.

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."

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  1. Re:been playing with it by bedahr · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is actually the simon approach does: the magic keyword is "simon". "simon Firefox" for example. -- bedahr

  2. Re:Project's webpage in English? by bedahr · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  3. Re:Open Source, or Microsoft-Owned? by bedahr · · Score: 5, Informative

    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