On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:45:25 -0700 jonathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:08 PM, TechAdmin at VibrantLivingMinistries > > > SO many years, will be blown away by newcomers. The folks at Nuance > > (company that owns the product) are clueless, > > Voice Recognition software is a series of patents protected by still > other patents. Nuance might well become a patent troll company, whose > ability to force money and time to be wasted exceeds that of the > SCOGroup. > > Sphinx is open source. (BSD style license.) > * Sphinx-4 uses Java, and suffers from it. It can't handle real time > application usage. > * PocketSphinx is almost able to handle real time application usage. > If the pain of speaking at 20 words per minute is tolerable, then > PocketSphinx will work, after extensive training by the person who > will be using it.
As a linguist, I can add something to this thread. One of the things to bear in mind is that the nature of speech is well documented in the literature and free for the asking. Any half baked university library can get you all the scientific journal articles relating to acoustic phonetics that you could read in a lifetime. Thus, anyone with the skill to write computer code and to understand phonetics can create their own speech recognition program. In fact, the same university that has a library that can get you the journal articles probably also teaches a course in acoustic phonetics. It is precisely these resources that companies that make telephone voice menuing systems and interactive systems for your car employ in order to perform their magic. My point is that you don't have to start with trying to figure out the nature of human speech. That has already been done. At the same time I don't mean to trivialize the problem, because human speech is awesomely complex. Just to read this short e-mail out loud would require thousands of vocal gestures and astonishing ability to sequence them with exacting precision. And for someone to hear it and understand it requires an equally complex multidimensional auditory system. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
