• Re: Julius speech recognition

    From Paul@21:1/5 to pinnerite on Thu Mar 21 00:10:51 2024
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 3/19/2024 10:05 AM, pinnerite wrote:
    Julius speech recognition
    Has anyone tried it?
    Can you point me to the setup/usage instructions?

    TIA Alan


    You'll remember that HAL would not open the pod bay doors.

    "Sudo make me a sandwich"

    That doesn't work either.

    It helps a lot to be in a quiet room (anechoic chamber)
    with a good microphone. This is the single most popular
    failure mechanism for speech recognition to not work.
    I have a good microphone now, but... not the quiet room
    I would need.

    It's possible to isolate sound with an array microphone.
    These MUST come with good software, as a pile of hardware
    by itself, is not going to make anyone a sandwich.

    https://www.minidsp.com/products/usb-audio-interface/uma-16-microphone-array

    A lot of experiments we do on computers, are "GIGO".
    Garbage In, Garbage Out. That's why the quality of the
    input matters so much. I've attempted speech recognition
    before, where the "test interface" told me there was
    "no audio signal present". That's important, by the way :-)
    Who knew.

    I think now you can tell why I have not, and will not
    be testing this. I've learned enough over the years
    about "GIGO" to have given up. This is why devices
    like Alexa use an array setup. The commercial companies
    have figured out the price of admission.

    Paul

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