[aklug] Re: Speech recognition

Can't remember the name of it, but at one point I found a linux project
that let you create voice menu tree in XML with prompts and responses
and actions that was pretty easy to use. I set it up to listen for
"Hello Dolly" to start the tree to let me listen to voicemails, hear the
weather forecast, or tell me how many emails I had waiting (by spawning
threads to helper-apps that returned values)

--Jason

On 11/12/2010 01:11 AM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Any of you guys ever played around with voice recognition software or programming APIs? Any stories to tell or helpful experiences?
>
> I dived into this recently. I don't know anything about waveform models or anything fancy like that. I'm just trying to integrate existing software into my PC in order to control it through audio commands.
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> I had hoped fully-integrated (open-source) solutions were already available, but it doesn't seem so. I played around with three high level applications but couldn't get them to work for me: Perlbox runs fine, but has poor recognition. CVoiceControl is rather old and doesn't seem to be compatible with my modern audio system. Gnome-voice-applet looked promising, but I can't get the applet to initialize without crashing.
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> So now I'm diving a little deeper and learning about Snack. It seems to have Python, Tcl, and Ruby bindings, so I think I'll be able to pick up enough to utilize the API for my own purposes. Sphinx3 seems to be another possibility, although I think it is too low-level a tool to be practically useful to me.
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Received on Fri Nov 12 13:52:27 2010