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From: wabe <wabenbau@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] speech recognition?
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 01:41:19
Message-Id: 20160518034043.67d74828@hal9000.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] speech recognition? by Andrew Savchenko
1 Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > > https://cloud.google.com/speech/
4 >
5 > Sad, but there are no free software solutions available in this
6 > area; at least I'm not aware of them completely. This is
7 > understandable: the task is extraordinary in both manpower and
8 > computational resources required.
9
10 Actually there are some open source speech recognition programs.
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12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_speech_recognition_software
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14 Sphinx2 and Sphinx3 are even available as gentoo ebuilds
15 (app-accessibility/sphinx2 and app-accessibility/sphinx3).
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17 Sphinx4 as well as a lots of information about it is available
18 here:
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20 http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
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22 A German language model can be found here:
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24 https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/files/Acoustic%20and%20Language%20Models/German%20Voxforge/
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26 However I don't know how much effort will be necessary to get the
27 whole thing working for your purposes.
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29
30 > And what Google offers here is not even a proprietary application,
31 > but an access to a proprietary cloud service which is temporarily
32 > free of charge as long as it is in alpha-testing stage.
33
34 That's right. Beside the fact that every spoken word will be
35 transfered to Google (bad enough), it will not be free of charge for
36 ever.
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38 --
39 Regards
40 wabe