Yes, I thought that it won't be easy... :) But it would be nice, if I can make it, with a lot of work too... :)
On dec. 22, 00:07, Jim Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 athttp://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
