Hey, On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 10:10 -0500, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 3:09 AM, satya komaragiri > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > @ Assim and Chris: Thank you for your response :) > > > > I'll be really grateful if you could tell me what the current scenario > > for Speech to text on XO is. And whether the OLPC cmmunity would be > > interested in having a speech to text support Speech recognition is a pretty hard thing to put in an OLPC, it demands a lot of computation power. and you need to train a language model per language, and you need basically a lot of different people reading text.
I tired getting one working in Hebrew using sphinx ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Sphinx ), however it seems to be hard because you need to read a lot of text in to the model, and even then its hard to make it actually working. If you still want to try getting this to work i suggest you read more on sphinx 3 (the numbers are not versions, so make sure its 3). That's the only open source system I know of that might get it work. There are still theoretical limitations, like the more words you put it, the higher the margin of error, and so on. > > Speech to Text would be of immense use IMO. I'm thinking of family > members who cannot read or write. Imagine them being able to speak > into the XO to send e-mails. This reminds me of a time when village > folk would come to my grandmother's to get a [snail mail] letter read > because they couldn't read or to write a reply by dictating it to > someone. > > Or, imagine speaking into the XO and seeing the letters appear as you > speak and being able to recognize the shape and form of basic and > commonly words. I hope to see that too! It would be a great thing not only for the OLPC!, but to everyone! > > Speech to text would be awesome! > > Sameer Guy Sheffer
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