Re: [PD] speech recognition and ethics

2015-02-07 Thread Ivica Ico Bukvic
There is still the access to computational power challenge, unless we make a seti@home-like speech recognition crawler which in and of itself has similar ethical implications. On 2/7/2015 12:55 PM, Spencer Russell wrote: I saw a really interesting talk last year by Johan Schalkwyk, the head

[PD] speech recognition and ethics

2015-02-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
Hi list, Here's a fun thought-experiment: suppose you're doing a port of Pd, and the graphics toolkit you're using will include functionality to hook in to Google's speech recognition API.  Such an API could make the software accessible to people who would otherwise find it very hard to write

Re: [PD] speech recognition and ethics

2015-02-07 Thread david medine
One of the bad things about Google is that it is essentially a giant billboard. Having said that, I am going to advertise a couple of things. If you want a speech recognition API that doesn't rely on a tax-exempt corporation that has more money than the nation of Russia, builds its products

Re: [PD] speech recognition and ethics

2015-02-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
Could context and domain-specific applications also simplify the algorithms to a great degree? -Jonathan On Saturday, February 7, 2015 1:06 PM, Spencer Russell spen...@ssfrr.com wrote: I saw a really interesting talk last year by Johan Schalkwyk, the head of the Google speech

Re: [PD] speech recognition and ethics

2015-02-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
Thanks, I didn't know there was a Sphinx external.  It also looks like the Sphinx website got a face-lift-- hopefully the software is also more approachable than the last time I looked. -Jonathan On Saturday, February 7, 2015 2:16 PM, david medine dmed...@ucsd.edu wrote: One of

Re: [PD] speech recognition and ethics

2015-02-07 Thread David Medine
Just a quick disclaimer about the extern. It's little more than a Pd wrapper for the sphinx hello world example. The build environment works, though (and was a real pain to get right on Linux because of some function name conflicts between sphinx and Pd), so it's a good jumping off point for