Re:Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released
by rdtsc on Monday December 31, 2012 @12:57AM
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I would love to see a good, quality, open source alternative to Nuance. They are pretty much a monopoly (patent and market wise) in this area. It also has to be open source, Nuance is known for either suing into oblivion (for patent infringement) or buying the competition.
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Re:Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released
by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @09:32AM
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This is actually the sort of project that will/can never be open-source. NOt because of the patents. Because its hard, requires 1000s of hours of thankless data collection. There's no shortcut to something cool - and open source loves cool demos that are easy to build.