<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>Thanks. This has been useful, I've been toying with Sphinx4 but haven't gotten very far with it yet. Took a while to get my environment set up to compile all the java sources.. should have downloaded the binary distro...:-)<br><br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Kurian Thayil <kurianmthayil@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 30, 2009 8:08:32
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Hi Alfred,<br><br>There is a research project by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) on a very versatile Speech Recognition Software. Its Sphinx <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php">http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php</a> . This application is in raw state and the Version 2 of sphinx could be integrated with Asterisk. Festival (Text to Speech application) that is widely used in asterisk is by CMU. Refer <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Sphinx">http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Sphinx</a> . I hope this gives a pretty good start.<br>
<br>Sphinx needs to be trained with a language model. But since your requirement is just names it should not be complicated. Also have a look at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/Communicator/">http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/Communicator/</a> . Something I have not looked into much (and I don't know if it has anything to do with Asterisk). I hope this helps.<br>
<br>Regards,<br><br>Kurian Thayil.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Alfred Monticello <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ajmcello@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ajmcello@yahoo.com">ajmcello@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I wouldn't have a database to compare names to, each one would essentially be unique and unknown. It's sounding like this idea may be not possible...What high end options are available? I read about lumenvox, but I believe that compares to a known list of names (such as a directory, or Yes No, Digits, etc)....<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Don Kelly <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dk@donkelly.biz" target="_blank" href="mailto:dk@donkelly.biz">dk@donkelly.biz</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 30, 2009 7:41:02 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [asterisk-users] Ideas on how to convert spoken name to text (orwav to text)..speech recognition software?<br>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">There are solutions ranging from free to
many thousands of dollars, with effectiveness ranging from nearly worthless to
almost pretty good.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">A lot depends on your application. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">The most successful application would
match an utterance from a known speaker to a known list of a couple dozen
names. For example, if I say "Alfred Monticello," the application
can easily distinguish this from other list entries such as "Don Kelly"
and "Robert Smith."</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">The least successful would attempt to
convert an utterance from an unknown speaker to text (which is what your
inquiry implies). Even if it clearly "understands" the speaker, the
result could easily be "Alphret Mahntichelo."</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 30, 2009
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I'm interested in taking a persons spoken recorded name (First, Last) and
converting the two spoken words to text. Is there any solutions out there that
would make this possible?</span></font></p>
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