Re: [Xvoice-sphinx] Sphinx-4 and x-voice

[Paul L. <Paul.Lamere@Sun.COM>]

Ken:

Sure thing.   One thing I'd like to do to get the ball rolling would be 
to look at how xvoice interfaces to a particular speech engine.  Do you 
know if there's a speech engine api that xvoice uses to interface to a 
particular speech engine?  It'd be interesting to hook xvoice to s4 to 
allow C&C of the desktop, while the trainer folks work their training 
magic over the models to improve the large vocabulary accuracy. Once 
they're done we can hook up the dictation.  Any  pointers on where to 
look for the engine API would be appreciated.

Paul


Ken Olum wrote:

>Thanks, Paul.
>
>Of course we'd be delighted to have Sphinx-4 moving in the direction
>you mention, and I'm sure we'd like to help, although having time to
>do so is always problematic.  Jessica tried for quite a while to do
>something with training in Sphinx-2, but didn't really get anywhere.
>
>There is certainly a community of potential users here who are waiting
>to get xvoice going as a dictation system again.  I, for one, would
>just love to get rid of NaturallySpeaking if I had a system that was
>accurate enough and no slower on the latest hardware, say, than
>NaturallySpeaking was on my old 266 MHz machine.
>
>Probably the best thing is to post to this list if "maybe" starts
>moving closer to "yes", or if you have anything that people here might
>be able to help with.
>
>		Ken
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