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Re: CMU Sphinx Speech Recognition

From: Alex Feinman <>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:22:28 -0500

R. Paul McCarty wrote:
> But I think the various GPL'd linux speech recognitions, Sphinx, and
> ViaVoice are like apples and oranges.  Correct me when I'm wrong here,
> but for a wearable application a comparison might look like the
> following:
> 
>              linux   status    system req.   open/GPL   corpus variable
>   freespeech   y    pre-alpha      ?            y             ?
> CSLU toolkit   n      beta         ?            y             y
> MSstate ISIP   y     alpha         ?            y             y
>       Sphinx   y     alpha      variable        y             y
>     ViaVoice   y     stable      high           n             n?
> 
> It seems to me the two critical criterion for incorporating speech
> recognition into a wearble, are low system requirements and variable
> corpa so you can fine tune the system to only respond to a small
> vocablulary. This would make the system more compact, responsive, and
> reduce processing time and memory.  Okay, there's only one requirement.
> :) I don't think ViaVoice will let you configure it with a smaller
> vocablulary, since it's focus appears to be dictation. Although, I'm
> probably wrong since there is info about configuring ViaVoice for
> applications and there's probably a way to specify the vocabulary.

Yes, you're wrong. ;-) ViaVoice lets you define your own vocabularies
and grammars, which would be very useful if I could get it to install
properly.

Also, VV requires you train on the Windows side, which is icky.

> Hm, so maybe these are really pretty close to one another.  But ViaVoice
> definitely has larger system requirements. Most of the GPL'd software is
> less then 5MB including the dictionaries, and ViaVoice wants 100MB.

On the plus side, the ViaVoice recognition is pretty darn good if you
use a good microphone.

> -Paul

Alex Feinman

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