[maemo-developers] One question about speech2text poor performance

[From: Scott Bambrough]

Graham Cobb wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 19:01:11 Mike Klein wrote:
>   
> Things may have improved in the last few years, but my guess is that until 
> there is a wikipedia-style project to allow people to contribute free speech 
> samples, there is unlikely to be very good open source speechrec: not because 
> of the software but because of the speech samples.
>
> Oh, and by the way, if anyone wanted to volunteer to set up a website to 
> collect samples please be aware that it is a very complex task: consult a 
> speechrec engineer before even thinking about it.  For example, it is 
> necessary to review and process all the samples (still a human ear process as 
> far as I know) and it is critical that the samples are tagged with 
> information about the voice (language, dialect, sex, location, age, etc) and 
> recording details (how was it acquired, in a recording studio or through a 
> mobile phone?, what codec, etc).
>   
Have a look at http://www.voxforge.org/

Scott