On 8/9/08, Brad Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > rick, > > Except that the author bases his argument on an inaccurate premise. See: > http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/ for an excellent speech recognizer. It's > open source (has been for at least a decade). In fact, the Apple (who the > author omitted) and Microsoft both based their speech recognizers on Sphinx > (I know, I worked in the ATG research team at Apple that developed their > speech recognizer). The Festival project (Google it), also partly hosted at > CMU, is a world-class speech synthesizer. Also open source and free to all. > And, there are others (eSpeak - based on Festival, GPL and free). > > Cheers, > > Brad > > rick the ponderer wrote: > >> There was a brief post on a possible path to agi at >> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=271202 >> yesterday. Essentially it involves masses of people creating binary >> classifiers in a economic market system, similar to how content is created >> on the web today (though with a micropayment system rather than advertising >> supported model). >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *agi* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> < >> https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> | Modify < >> https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription [Powered by >> Listbox] <http://www.listbox.com> >> >> > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > I'm the author of the post - I don't really know about speech recognizers (i had heard of those and have tried using them on my computer, I just meant products widely available to the nontechnical public), But my argument is they're not good enought yet (otherwise human transcription services wouldn't exist) because enough human labelled data hasn't been used to create them, and such an undertaking would require many thousands/millions of people (if you include video and text recognition).
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