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"Elroy Willis" |
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13 Aug 2005 05:40:08 AM |
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OT - Voice Recognition Software |
Anybody around here ever done any coding for voice recognition
software and would be willing to share some code or tricks of the
trade?
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Elroy Willis
www.elroysemporium.com
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| User: "WCB" |
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| Title: Re: OT - Voice Recognition Software |
13 Aug 2005 07:15:02 PM |
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Elroy Willis wrote:
Anybody around here ever done any coding for voice recognition
software and would be willing to share some code or tricks of the
trade?
Good voice recognition systems were based on
AI systems that allowed software to be trained to
help program itself. Evolutionary programming
apparently was used in a great many programs of
this type, including OCR software also.
Its apparently almost impossible to write this sort of
software from scratch based on first principles and get
it to work well.
This stuff relies on several programs working together,
the basic programs that convert sounds to symbolic
language works with natural language programming to
help use context as clues to less than clear sounds.
On top of that programming adopts itself to the
users.
The high end stuff is pretty amazing and took
years to program this way, it takes several generations
to get to a high state of usefulness, even when you get teh
basics down.
--
Xenu is around and about,
mention Hubbard, Xenu pops out!
No way for the clams to stamp Xenu out,
Xenu is around and about!
Cheerful Charlie
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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| Title: Re: OT - Voice Recognition Software |
13 Aug 2005 12:52:45 PM |
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Elroy Willis wrote:
Anybody around here ever done any coding for voice recognition
software and would be willing to share some code or tricks of the
trade?
No but there was an article in the May 1961 issue of Time magazine on an IBM
device called shoebox. It's predecessor was named suitcase.
It had a 13 word vocabulary and required one circuit card per word. IBM
claimed they had solved the problems associated with pronunciation,,and
intonation. I.E. it understood the words.
Any circuit from that time would be lost on the head of a pin today.
Over the years I asked IBM people about it and did meet one retired engineer
who remembered it.
If I was paranoid...
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| User: "WCB" |
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| Title: Re: OT - Voice Recognition Software |
13 Aug 2005 07:18:18 PM |
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Mike Painter wrote:
Elroy Willis wrote:
Anybody around here ever done any coding for voice recognition
software and would be willing to share some code or tricks of the
trade?
No but there was an article in the May 1961 issue of Time magazine on an
IBM device called shoebox. It's predecessor was named suitcase.
It had a 13 word vocabulary and required one circuit card per word. IBM
claimed they had solved the problems associated with pronunciation,,and
intonation. I.E. it understood the words.
Any circuit from that time would be lost on the head of a pin today.
Over the years I asked IBM people about it and did meet one retired
engineer who remembered it.
If I was paranoid...
You may have used similar software if you ever called up
a credit card company or the phone company.
The first layer of customer service nowadays often relies
on voice recognition. When you read off your credit card number
on such a system, it can pull up your records on the other
end from a data base.
It works rather well.
--
Xenu is around and about,
mention Hubbard, Xenu pops out!
No way for the clams to stamp Xenu out,
Xenu is around and about!
Cheerful Charlie
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