Workshop Suggestions

[Ahmed Toulan]

Also I forgot something in my last email. HTK states the following
in its license http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/docs/license.shtml

2.2 The Licensed Software either in whole or in part can not be
distributed or sub-licensed to any third party in any form.
*
*So technically we can't create an application using these tools.
May be we should think about other toolkits like Sphinx
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/
not sure about the license though.

Best regards,
Ahmed Toulan.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Ahmed Toulan <thelinuxer at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> Hi Ahmed Sayed,
>
> I have a masters degree in a field related to speech recognition
> (Spoken term detection). From my experience, for the recognition
> part only, we need to have a good database. I tried to  convince
> Sebastien(Google's developers relations manager) to help create
> an Arabic speech database but I never heard back from him.
>
> Forgive me guys I will get a little bit technical about the subject :)
>
> The basic definition of good database is that it should be phonetically
> balanced and have sufficient repetitions for monophones and triphones.
> So, IMO what we need is to collect a good database if we really
> want to build a robust recognition engine.
>
> Of course we can build a simple recognizer with a few hours of
> recordings but it won't be robust enough for real world applications,
> and we can use this as a starting point to keep ourselves motivated :)
>
> And yes I totally agree with you. Using HTK requires a lot of glue
> code to make it work together. I mostly used bash and python
> for this purpose. We can create a simple IDE to save some time :D
> I wanted to build that IDE when I was doing my masters, but of
> course didn't have time to do both :)
>
> About the workshop. I guess what we mostly need is to spread
> the word and try to get help from different universities. I can contact
> my professors @ Cairo universities and may be u can do the same
> @ ur university and anyone else who might interested in the subject.
>
> Who knows may be this team will produce the a standard speech
> database that will be used by researchers in the future.
>
> Can u please give us some technical specs of the database u have.
> How many subjects ? How long ? How many male/female ? Who
> owns the database ? ..etc
>
> Best regards,
> Ahmed Toulan.
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Ahmad Sayed <ahmad.ahmadsayed at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear Ahmed Araby,
>>
>> I understand your concerns, but I think i did not make myself clear, the
>> goal of workshop is to give a short intro for each group and how they can
>> contribute
>> e.g
>> Group 1 that are focus in data collection and transcription, all they need
>> is hints on how they collect the data and the convention used in
>> transcription.
>> Group 2 that have programming skills, focus in writing code to do a file
>> processing By the way a lot of glue code required to put things together
>> here the python, perl myself use Java part
>> .
>> Group 3 people with background in this area merge the code and enhance the
>> engine.
>>
>> I think we need about 5 hours to have a simple workable engine. the
>> workshop will be a true team work challenge and every one share will do
>> something he may be never expect to be done before.
>> Using a pure opernsource tool, under linux
>> to get out the engine done for simple task, please have a look at
>>  http://www.voxforge.org/
>>
>> http://www.voxforge.org/home/dev/acousticmodels/linux/create/htkjulius/tutorial
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope I make my idea clear.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ahmed Sayed
>>
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