Hi Mike, I've spent some time working with the CMU Sphinx automatic speech recognition software, as well as the Festival text-to-speech software. From the Texai SourceForge source code repository, anyone interested can inspect and download an echo application that recognizes a spoken utterance and speaks back the words that it understood. I enhanced the Java Sphinx software to allow a hook into its word-by-word language model scoring so that in the future I will be able to improve speech recognition via Texai's disambiguation facility.
I postponed more work on the speech interface until after the text-based English dialog system is deployed and working well. I believe that the delay imposed by working on speech now is not worth holding back the text-based dialog system. Given that deaf humans are perfectly competent with text interaction, I expect that I'm making the right decision. Cheers. -Steve Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave. Austin, Texas, USA 78704 512.791.7860 ----- Original Message ---- From: Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 5:15:09 PM Subject: Re: [agi] standard way to represent NL ..PS A nice analogy occurs to me for NLP - processing language without the sounds. It's like processing songs without the music. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
