On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 02:15:46PM -0800, Zwiebel wrote: > I have decided, that I will try to start to make a new voice input > program, with I can input words in my own language (hungarian). But I > don't know how to start, because I haven't seen anything on the > internet about these things. Could you give me some advices of this, > please?
My suggestion: wait for support for Hungarian to be added (if it isn't already there). You are getting into a far, far more complicated project than you may realize. I can't speak for Hungarian, but in English, at least, there are words and phrases which can sound very, very similar, and voice recognition software must take context into account. Sadly, there are also times when taking context into account will cause it to fail. A perfect example comes from a guest speaker at an ICA (International Communications Association) conference I attended (I think it was the same year, 1988, when I had a student paper on broadband packet switching published in the ICA journal, but it might have been the following year). Anyways, this particular guest speaker was doing a presentation on speech recognition. He told us about the various problems, such as different speeds, accents, similar sounding words, etc., and then gave us a little example.... He said, or we THOUGHT he said, "Do you know how to recognize speech?" He said this fairly quickly, and there was no real separation between words. As we're all looking around, wondering what on earth he meant, and thinking, "Of COURSE we know how to recognize speech!", he stood there, just watching us (no doubt with a big grin). He finally spoke up and said, "Now, you may THINK I said, do you know how to RECOGNIZE SPEECH. Well, you're all wrong. I said, do you know how to WRECK A NICE BEACH." [empasis his, all spoken slowly and clearly] When he said that, you could almost see the little cartoon-like light bulbs lighting up over everyone's heads, as our understanding of just how complicated it really is took a major leap forward. We all took his words in context with the topic of the presentation, and our brains all got it completely wrong. So keep that in mind if you really plan on starting this. I'm not saying you won't or can't succeed; I'm just saying that it's not as simple as you might expect, and that you need to take concerns such as this into account. Best of luck if you do go forward with it. Later, --jim -- THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | 1) "Smoking habanero powder helps defeat that < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > | off taste' quite nicely." [email protected] | 2) "I figure a couple bong hits of [habanero] ICBM/Hurr.: / 30.44406N | powder would defeat just about anything!" | 86.59909W --seen in Chile-Heads list Android Apps Listing at http://www.jstrack.org/barcodes.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
