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[Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx>]

I forgot to mention the new sonic home page:

http://vinux-project.org/sonic

The adoption rate seems quite strong.  It's going into TTS engines and
Audio book applications, and devices for the blind.

Bill

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jacky Alcine <jackyalcine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I need for pedro3005, webrsk, waywardgeek, m0hi, and bedahr to either take
>> participation in the python-openmary project or the speechcontrol-daemon
>> project.
>
> Hi, Jacky.  I personally feel the weak link in speech control is the
> non-distributable nature of some speech recognition code, and the lack
> of productization in Sphinx.  I may be wrong, but I believe I can
> write a very good quality speech recognition engine that could make a
> huge difference to open-source speech control.  If you don't mind, I'd
> like to continue with this work.  To date, it's resulted in libsonic
> for speeding up speech with low distortion.  The next big step will be
> isolated word recognition.  I've done a ton of work on cleaning up
> spectrograms, and I believe I have the best algorithms anywhere, other
> than potential trade-secret algorithms.  Check out my web page on
> generating spectrograms:
>
> http://vinux-project.org/time-aliased-hann/
>
> In addition to improved spectrograms, I believe I can write code to
> fairly accurately annotate the speech stream with voice events:
> glottal open, plosive open, stops, fricative begin/end, etc.  I think
> I can combine evidence from both the time domain and frequency domain
> to determine what kind of fricatives and plosives are present in the
> sound stream.  I'm hopeful that the combination of improved spectral
> analysis and time domain analysis will yield better results than we've
> seen in any system to date.
>
> In short, I'd like to keep working full steam ahead on this.  I can do
> debian packaging and such, but I'd like my big project to be the
> speech recognition engine.
>
> Bill
>