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Speech Recognition

  • 12-08-2004 08:02AM
    #1
    finnpark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭


    Hi. I am just wondering did anyone out there ever do a speech recognition project. Any advice would be appreciated.

    Thanks :D


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  • #2
    blondie83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭blondie83


    Yeah I did one in 2nd year (now going into 4th elec eng). We had to write an essay on any technical topic - and then some of us had to do powerpoint presentations of our essays. That was fairly nerve wracking! i found it a very interesting thing to learn about though. I'll go through my things and see if I can find some stuff to help you out. :cool:

    P.S. Here's a link to an earlier thread where I gave it a brief overveiw

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1323808#post1323808


  • #3
    finnpark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭finnpark


    Thats very helpfull of you Blondie. ;) I want to use speech signals to control a robot car but anything at all that would help would be really appreciated!

    I think a lot of programming in C and perhaps in some other language required. Also maybe a lot of maths. Im starting a project soon in 4th Year electronics in it also, it is one part of it. I also have cameras, sensors, webcam, Internet control and some other stuff to do. It's a lot to do so thats why I'm looking for some advice now.

    Let me know if you can find anything. :D

    Thanks!


  • #4
    blondie83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭blondie83


    My project wasn't all that indepth, but yours does sound very interesting. I've got a few sites here to start you off with, I found some of them very handy for understanding how it actually worked.

    http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~yingfeng/presentations/VRHardware/sec3.html#3.1 This gives a bit of an oversight into speect recognition

    http://www.gignews.com/fdlspeech1.htm this link gives a more indepth insight into how it works, and deals with using it in games ect. Might be more related to what your planning to do!

    http://www.abilitynet.co.uk/content/alt_tech/voice/voice_recognition.htm a fairly detailed overveiw, shows some of the different products around. Not all that technical, but interesting

    http://www.generation5.org/content/2001/markov.asp explains Markov models quite well

    http://akpublic.research.att.com/info/Projects AT&T labs do some pretty good research into the whole field. This links to their project page, where they have a couple of voice recognition and voice synthesis projects going on


    I know none of them really go into the coding all that much, but you might be able to get something useful out of them. I used a few other sites that were more indepth, but am having trouble finding the URL's. I'll post them up when I do - hope these help in the mean time!


  • #5
    finnpark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭finnpark


    Many thanks. I will look at them well but certainly look good from what i have seen.

    Its a very interesting topic i think, its kinda cool. I am into analogue hardware design but now i want to look at other parts of electronics. Start back at college in 3 weeks so not long to go. Finished work this week and then will look at project. What project are you doing for final year?

    I know that Matlab and C have been used in the past for speech recognition so I will probably have to use the same. It will be hard to have it working 100%(especially with my Donegal accent :D ) but I will give it a good try anyway. Electronics is brilliant, really glad I picked it and is a good hobby also if you have the time.

    Anyway must go! Thanks again, your really helpfull. :)
    Slan


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