Actually that project was called "De Volksbeamer". Named after the famous first volkswagen, meaning something as "beamer for all the people". A german magazine (From the Praxis -publishers house) featured an article how to build your own.
A guy in the Netherlands wrote about this more than a year ago on his weblog. It featured a post that included a pdf-file with the scanned article that described how to build the 'volksbeamer'.
Unfortunately the publisher of the magazine summoned the guy to remove the pdf-file from his website, which he did.
Nice title; Speech code from IBM to become open source
And even better.. the comment from Microsoft, quoted at the end of the article "IBM has not executed in bringing this technology to a broad market as Microsoft has."
Beside the jokes; The article states as well that Microsoft introduced their Speech Server 2004 last March, and that 100,000 software programmers have downloaded Microsoft's free software developers' kit for building speech applications on its Windows.Net technology. What exactly is the difference in quality and approach between the package from M$ and the one here mentioned from IBM ?
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A guy in the Netherlands wrote about this more than a year ago on his weblog. It featured a post that included a pdf-file with the scanned article that described how to build the 'volksbeamer'.
Unfortunately the publisher of the magazine summoned the guy to remove the pdf-file from his website, which he did.
Whoa.. and now I try a search on the website of the magazine and I've found the full description of how to build the Volksbeamer ! :-)
http://www.pcpraxis-networld.de/tmp/volksbeamer.pd f
Nice title;
.Net technology. What exactly is the difference in quality and approach between the package from M$ and the one here mentioned from IBM ?
Speech code from IBM to become open source
And even better.. the comment from Microsoft, quoted at the end of the article
"IBM has not executed in bringing this technology to a broad market as Microsoft has."
Beside the jokes; The article states as well that Microsoft introduced their Speech Server 2004 last March, and that 100,000 software programmers have downloaded Microsoft's free software developers' kit for building speech applications on its Windows