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QuickStart download

This QuickStart download was designed to highlight the use of VoxForge Acoustic Models with Open Source Speech Recognition Engines.  We will start with a download that uses the Julius Speech Recognition Engine.   

These downloads contain everything you need to get Julius working:

  • Julius Speech Recognition Engine executables;
  • VoxForge Acoustic Model files;
  • VoxForge sample Grammar files; and
  • Cygwin executables (Windows only).

Click the link for your operating system for the and follow the instructions in the enclosed README file.  You can also try one of the Nightly Builds for the most up to date version of the Acoustic Models.

Notes:

1. The Acoustic Models currently included with the QuickStart Downloads are still in alpha stage, so the recognition quality reflects this.  We need much more GPL transcribed speech audio to create decent quality Acoustic Models.  So please take the time to submit some transcribed speech to VoxForge.  Go to the Read page for instructions on how to do this.

2.  A "Speech Recognition Engine" (like Julius) is only one component of a Speech Command and Control System (where you can speak a command and the computer does something).  You still need a Dialog Manager to understand what to do with the recognition results from the speech recognition engine (i.e. to take the words recognized by the Speech Recognition Engine, and make the computer do something useful).  VoxForge has not yet created a dialog manager for use with Julius. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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<<< please speak >>>
By Peter - 11/27/2011 - 1 Replies

Hello,


I tried to run julian of the quick-start-project. It runs, so you can see <<< please speak >>>. But It doesn't recognice when I am speaking in my microphone (I am using a USB head-phone with microphone). According to the system settings, it recognizes my microphone and it actually works. but not with julian. Do you guys would know what is wrong?

I also tried to do the tutorial for creating an own speaker dependent acoustic model. If I run it after the last step. I get following failure message. But I can't imagine what could be wrong. I do point to the right. julian.jconf file.

include config: ./julian.jconf
./julian.jconf: wrong argument: -dfa
Try `-help' for more information.
Terminated

I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx

 

Best Regards,

Peter

 

Wrong references in docs to non existing files
By Matteo - 7/15/2011 - 1 Replies

Another broken reference in the docs:

From doc/gramtools.txt:

To know how to write a grammar for Julian and about the file formats,
please see Grammar.txt for details.

 

There's no file named Grammar.txt in the whole package.

 

Broken link in GRAMMAR_NOTES file included in QuickStart package
By Matteo - 7/15/2011 - 1 Replies

The  GRAMMAR_NOTES file included in the QuickStart package has two broken links:

For help with Julian grammar syntax see
 * the VoxForge tutorial step 1 at: http://www.voxforge.org/home/dev/acousticmodels/linux/create/htkjulius/tutorial/data-prep/step-1; or
 * the Julian grammar tutorial on the Julius web site at: http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en/grammar.html.

 

None of these exist.

can anyone tell me when corpus.c came in to the training part
By sharmavoxforge - 6/21/2011 - 1 Replies

FATAL_ERROR: "corpus.c", line 1407: File length mismatch at line 8194 in /????/???/workspace/ASR/hmm_test/etc/tamil_test_train.transcription

How
By Harshal - 3/8/2011 - 2 Replies

Please can anyone tell me how to build a language model that work with openears. OpenEars uses .languagemodel and .dic extension files.

VoxForge for OSX
By soilduck - 2/7/2011 - 2 Replies

Hey Guys,


This looks great and love to contribute my own voice/speech! However, I noticed you don't have a quick start for OSX at the moment. Any plans for the near future?

 

Thanks for the great Open Source work! :D