Hi All, The current system uses the open source library pocketsphinx ( http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/) - I believe this is the current "best" open source voice recognition tool.
Unfortunately this library is not able to perform dictation with an acceptable level of accuracy. I don't know of any open source voice tools that are. It is applicable to "command and control" situations, like we use it for in HUD. It can work with either - A language model. Built from a corpus of text, e.g. the Wall Street Journal. This basically gives it information the probabilities different words being together in speech. Theoretically this can be used to recognise more natural commands, but I found its accuracy to be very poor. - A finite state grammar - this is what we use in HUD. Basically it's a simple state machine that defines the commands that we get from the various programs running. This has relatively high accuracy, but has the limitation of only recognising a fixed set of inputs. It is worth noting that a considerable amount of effort was expended training the acoustic model (the part that actually identifies what phonemes the user is saying) that is used currently. It was trained against the Voxforge international english audio corpus (http://voxforge.org/). Much of the academic work done in this area is funded by the likes of Microsoft. In these situations a pretty strict "closed licence" is usually applied. Unfortunately what this means practically, is that the only way you'll get dictation at the moment is with a closed-source tool... I hope this information is useful! Cheers, Pete On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Zisu Andrei <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote a little something for this occasion: > http://zisuandrei.webmonsters.ro/design-in-open-source-unity-and-dash/ there > are some sections called "HUD" and "Dash" and "HUD voice interaction". Some > of my propositions are obsolete after 3 months from writing, some are > outright stupid, but bear with my article:D > > I tried desperately to get on the unity-design mailing list but it seems > there is no one in charge of approving those mailing list acceptance > requests (https://launchpad.net/~unity-design/+members#proposed 44 > membership requests for over 3-4 months). If there is any Canonical > employee that could help me with approving my membership for unity-design I > would greatly appreciate it. > > Zisu Andrei > > > On 27 June 2013 03:38, Josh Leverette <[email protected]> wrote: > >> there seems to be a basic system for voice recognition, designed to >> control the currently open app based on a limited command vocabulary. I'm >> curious if there are any plans for a Siri-like assistant, maybe for the >> 14.04 release? and how accurate is the dictation software? is it good >> enough for straight text composition like Joseph was talking about? I know >> it's fully offline, which is a tremendous advantage and disadvantage over >> the competition. >> >> Sincerely, >> Josh >> On Jun 26, 2013 9:35 PM, "Joseph Bylund" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Has there been any discussion of voice recognition, both to compose >>> texts/emails and to perform actions, like "open the music player"? I find >>> this feature quite useful on my current phone. >>> >>> -Joe >>> >>> -- >>> Mailing list: >>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-**phone<https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone> >>> Post to : >>> [email protected].**net<[email protected]> >>> Unsubscribe : >>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-**phone<https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone> >>> More help : >>> https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >>> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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