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By: mokhov

Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:32:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Serguei A. Mokhov <mokhov AT cs concordia ca>
To: siyengar AT winona edu
Cc: Serguei A. Mokhov <mokhov AT cs concordia ca>
Subject: Re: [marf-dev] [marf - Help] RE: Speech to text

Hi,

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, SourceForge.net wrote:

> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:10:54 -0800
> From: SourceForge.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [marf-dev] [marf - Help] RE: Speech to text
>
>
> I am also looking for such a program. Really, what we need is something
> that will convert simple sounds to phonemes. Not interested in language
> processing.
>
> Ex. If someone said "papa" (onto an attached microphone) the program
> should generate the text 'papa'.

This task (of 'papa') is not difficult and can be done without phoneme
processing. Unless I misunderstood you, you only need Segmentation on
word-boundary (by detecting silence gaps) and matching up the segmented
word utterances to a training set dictionary (preprocessed and with
features extracted). Such word-boundary segmentation for MARF is being
worked on as I am writing this.


> We are working on the front end of an language independent phoeneme
> processing system.

If you have to to phonemes, which are components of each word's
utterances, the simple word-boundary segmentation is not enough, and
especially in a continuous flow of speech data followed by a state-machine
based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) and the like. Then you get a good
semblence of a full speech-to-text syste. MARF due to lack of man power to
work on that doesn't do that. (You are welcome to contribute it though if
you are up to it and want to help out ;).

As I mentioned before, CMU Sphinx (also hosted on SourceForge.net and is
also in Java and also licensed in BSD) does that (HMMs and others), so you
can look at that engine.

As far as MARF concerned, as earlier discussion in this and similar
threads indicate, we may simply adapt Sphinx' code as a set of plug-ins
for MARF to do he speech-to-text tasks.

Hope that is of any help to you.


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Doing that ;) With a copy to the forum...

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