[maemo-developers] One question about speech2text poor performance

[From: David Huggins-Daines]

Marco Solari wrote:
> The question is: is the task of recognizing a small set of utterances
> basically different from the task of recognizing spoken words out of a
> bigger dictionary (I limit the problem to single words, not considering the
> spoken speech...)
Yes, this is exactly the case.  Recognizing a limited set of names in 
isolation is not at all computationally intensive compared to 
recognizing full sentences of connected words.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_time_warping