Voice Activated Controls

[Dean Collins]

Hey Jeff,
I was going to mention sphinx (or even a lumenvox installation), but
this would require people to have an asterisk installation if they were
going to run this application.

An ASP service will always offer more accuracy and functionality and
needn't be too expensive.

Hell if you are going to install asterisk on a home server may as well
buy a Mexuar Corraleta license (www.mexuar.com) so you can do the calls
via a browser :)

http://www.mexuar.com/downloads/Level1Products/CorraletaDemoSound.swf



Regards,

Dean Collins
dean at mexuar.com 
+1-212-203-4357 Ph
+1-917-207-3420 Mb


> -----Original Message-----
> From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org [mailto:community-
> bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of jeff
> Sent: Monday, 26 February 2007 8:01 PM
> To: community at lists.openmoko.org
> Subject: Re: Voice Activated Controls
> 
> Dean Collins wrote:
> > The answer is no, the neo processing power is too limited.
> 
> Or perhaps the answer is more like "maybe". ;)  I'm still holding my
breath for
> pocketsphinx...   The page does say it works with StrongARM, which if
I'm
> reading wikipedia correctly was just 206MHz.
> 
> > You need to start thinking bigger guys.
> >
> > Why does the processing need to occur on the handset itself? What
about
> > building a 'cloud' application where the application and processing
> > occurs with only a sip or gsm connection to the handset?
> >
> > Check out http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Tellme for an idea on
what
> > I am describing.
> 
> This is a nice idea to offload processing to another box and spit back
the
> results. One big problem I have with the Tellme approach is that it
isn't free
> as it's using some service provider. Blah for me there. That said,
there's no
> reason the ideas behind it couldn't be implemented freely.
> 
> I've done speech recognition with sphinx and asterisk. It doesn't work
too
> great--the main problem being that GSM is a pretty low quality sample
for it to
> work with. You know how you can never understand anyone talking on a
cell
> phone? ;)  Well, sphinx can't understand it too well either. But
pocketsphinx
> (which I haven't tried) lists on their page "telephone-bandwidth
models"--this
> looks promising.
> 
> For SIP, you need some sort of net connection, of course, and I think
we can
> assume that that is coming. Then you can use alaw/ulaw instead of GSM
and that
> will help recognition quite a bit...
> 
> -Jeff    /    #jebba
> 
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