Comments on: Writing a command and control application with voice recognition

By: VoxForge

VoxForge — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:56:00 +0000

Thank you!

By: RainCT

RainCT — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:11:52 +0000

Voxforge: Well, “new upstream versions” are considered features, unless they are “bugfix only”. But as VoxForge is not an application it may well be possible to get an exception. In regards to your last question, you can of course use any acoustic model you want (just write the path to that one you want instead of to /usr/share/julius-voxforge/acoustic/, in julian.jconf).

By: VoxForge

VoxForge — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:28:15 +0000

Hi RainCT,

thank you for your quick reply!
Is speech recognition accuracy really a feature? I thought that a feature is a new package with new options. It depends, I think, on the reviewer. Maybe you can better not release it, but waiting a few months and try then to release it in intrepid-backports as it might be a bigger improvement.
I don’t know when Ken comes back from holiday and will process the submissions, but I’ll drop you a mail when it is ready.
On the other hand, if it will not be entered in Intrepid, is it simply possible to overwrite the acoustic model in order to improve the accuracy?

By: RainCT

RainCT — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:43:13 +0000

VoxForge: Hey. I’m happy that it’s useful for you :). Drop me a mail once the new version is released and I’ll try if I can get it in, but I can’t promise anything as Feature Freeze is about to start (which means that no new features can enter Intrepid).

By: VoxForge

VoxForge — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:14:58 +0000

Hi RainCT,

thank you for creating julius and julius-voxforge in intrepid, that will make my project for school much more simple! Will it be updated when the new audio speech-files in VoxForge are processed? (Now there are around 50 new speech submissions.)

By: Gunni

Gunni — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:59:54 +0000

Just if any other stumbles upon the error i got.
The .dict file was not build, i had to use “sudo mkdfa sample” to build the dict and dfa file. I dont know why, cause the directory i created was in my homefolder, belonging me and was chmod 777 -R by me.

By: RainCT

RainCT — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:32:48 +0000

[@ Loffe]

Yeah, that with the loud music is true, but I think it works quit good anyway. While I was writing the script I wondered if it would recognize anything while I have music playing, but as you see up to a certain point it does :).

About GUI, I know of the two following ones, but I haven’t tried them yet:

- Simon (http://simon-listens.org/index.php?id=122&L=1), which uses Julius, but it doesn’t seem to build on Hardy.

- The panel applet gnome-voice-control (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeVoiceControl), which uses a different engine, Sphinx (which from my previous experience with it seems to require a pretty good microphone - using the cheap one I have it only recognizes like 1 word out of 50). It is in the repositories, but the version in Hardy doesn’t work (although I just spoke with the maintainer and he is working on fixing it now).

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By: Loffe

Loffe — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:52:29 +0000

Wow. It’s cool to control music by voice. Unfortunately it don’t work when I play songs very load

Do you know if there’s a project to make voice control easy to the user? Something to control apps with a simple gui…

By: Arnau

Arnau — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:10:30 +0000

Guai!!! Quan tingui temps ho provaré!