Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released

Re:Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released by biot on Sunday December 30, 2012 @11:05PM (#4988338)

This might be better described as scenario-based command recognition, where a scenario is something like "Firefox", "Skype", and so on with commands specific to the scenario you're in. In other words, if you're looking to do automated voice transcription these aren't the libraries you're looking for.

Main site: http://userbase.kde.org/Simon

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Re:Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released by gcr on Monday December 31, 2012 @01:37AM (#4988624)

Wait, so if your universe is ["Coke", "Pepsi", "Sprite"], then this library will tell you which one the user spoke?

Just being clear, it wouldn't take you from a bucket of raw sound samples to a string like "I'd like a Coke, please" ?

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Re:Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released by _delirium on Monday December 31, 2012 @01:58AM (#4988654)

Yeah, this tool is focused on recognizing specific utterances given the curent context, e.g. (to take an example they use) voice-operating a browser. So you say things like "close tab" and it realizes that you've said one of the command words it recognizes in that context, and acts accordingly. They also have an example somewhere about controlling a calculator by speaking digits and arithmetic operations. Doesn't seem to be aimed at free-form audio-to-text transcription, though some of the technologies it's built on, such as CMU Sphinx, are fairly general.

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