Arabic speech recognition engine

[Mahmoud Tantawy]

@Ahmed Toulan & Ahmed Sayed

Count me in in the speech recognition workshop as i am very interested in finding a way to relate what i should be studying in college "signal processing" & real life stuff!



Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:13:38 +0200
Subject: Re: Arabic speech recognition engine
From: ahmedandkhaldboys at gmail.com
To: ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com

great.... wait my next reply maybe i think in it :)

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Ahmed Toulan <thelinuxer at ubuntu.com> wrote:

OK lets move it to another thread to avoid annoying anyone :)

I had that same ambition about voxforge. To get Arabic added 

to voxforge we need to translate the applet, already translated 
most of it, translate the website and provide them with Arabic 

prompts for the database. Check this link out 
https://translations.launchpad.net/voxforge/voxforge-speech-submission-applet/+lang/ar



I tried to get my professors excited about voxforge but they
didn't feel that we will be able to control the quality of the database.

I guess the best way to do this is to encourage speech researchers


in different universities to help collect the database. I would have 
paid for this kind of database if it existed when I was doing my 
research.

The other way is to record audio from news stations and use it,


but I am not sure about the copyrights.

About the licensing issue. HTK prevents re-distribution. That's why
you won't find it in Ubuntu repos for instance. And of course I am
not talking about a proprietary product either.



Finally, I will leave the workshop decisions to you. I suggest it
to be one day workshop. Gather some students and teach them
about speech recognition engines and help them create their own.
How about that ? Then may be we can move to the next step and


contact some university professors. But I guess we will have to 
meet privately to make sure that the workshop will go smooth and
prepare ourselves for any surprises :)

Finally, don't worry about the admin. He's a good friend of mine.


Yeah! I suffer from split personality :D

Best regards,
Ahmed Toulan.









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