09-15-2004, 06:00 AM
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Hardware-Based Speech Recognition?
"The US National Science Foundation has awarded a $1m grant to researchers in the US who want to put speech recognition on a chip, a move the project's proponents claim will revolutionise the way we communicate. Rob Rutenbar, Jatras professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, will lead the project. The research will be conducted in tandem with scientists from the University of California in Berkeley."
The article suggests that moving speech recognition algorithms into silicon is key for lower power and computation requirements. The article is highly speculative about the ramifications, but it would certainly be cool if it could become a reality. Would you want speech recognition in your Pocket PC? 
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09-15-2004, 06:11 AM
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i say at least 5 years before this tech is pocketsized. it will hti the desktop first, and it will not be a hit there i dont think, but once they shrink it and put it in a pda, im buyin'
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09-15-2004, 06:17 AM
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09-15-2004, 06:24 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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msft voice works great
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Originally Posted by Dolphin
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I had siemens sx56 and now have ipaq 6315. Msft voice works great.
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09-15-2004, 06:44 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Re: msft voice works great
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Originally Posted by jgalindo
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Originally Posted by Dolphin
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I had siemens sx56 and now have ipaq 6315. Msft voice works great. |
Thanks... I think I'll give it a try!
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09-15-2004, 07:49 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2004
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There's another one out there too, made by Fonix here
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09-15-2004, 08:49 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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MS Voice Command works quite well, although if you have a twist to your English accent, it may not work too well. :roll:
Hopefully future versions of Voice Command will accommodate for this.
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09-15-2004, 09:27 AM
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I have mixed feelings about this. As probably known by everyone in this forum (and all their close friends) there are already software based translation tools on the PPC, be they the Darpa-funded Phraselator or some of the other commercial ones that I can't remember off the top of my head. Granted, while the Phraselator stuff is pretty rough and is marginal at best in the ability to do the task, if there's one thing we've seen over the years, it's to never underestimate the rapid pace of hardware speed and energy efficiency increases.
I've picked on the Phraselator a lot in a few speech forums here, but while I don't think it really works right now, it seems pretty clear that at some point in the future it WILL work.
Not saying I'm against specific hardware development; there are certainly plenty of aftermarket video cards for both display and capture, because the build in stuff barely, if at all, works for those applications. However, in a day and age where most of the Darpa-esque/military S&T funding and is to move stuff FROM hardware to software based (e.g. software radios), it is kind of curious that they'd be doing this. But I guess we won't know until we try, and I don't personally know enough about the back end of speech recognition to second guess the researchers.
I guess my gut seems to say that the hardware they'll develop in the proposed 2-3 year timeframe will be lagging behind the software-based work in 2-3 years coupled with the impending improvements in basic chip speeds and power efficiencies. Then again, my gut isn't exactly a speech recognition expert.
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09-15-2004, 10:33 AM
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Mystic
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They would do better to improve the basics of speech recognition e.g DIgital Signal Processing and Single Instruction, Multiple Data functionality to mobile chips, instead of trying to fit a whole recognition model on a chip.
I dont think in any case people like talking to their gadgets, else speech recognition would have taken off on the desktop, where there is no shortage of power. It would be even worse on the subway, talking to your PDA.
The real scandal of PDA's are that they do not have any floating point processor, which is a real deficit in this day and age.
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09-15-2004, 11:16 AM
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Intellectual
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While we're on the voice recognition topic, I am thinking about installing a voice recognition app. on my PPC (XDA II) and want to know what options I have and how good they are.
So far I know of Fonix Voice Dial and there's MSFT Voice Command.
Are there any more options? obviously the speed and accuracy of recognition is what is key here but besides that is there anything else I should be looking for? do these apps let you control all functions of the PPC or just the phone/dialing part etc.?
Any feedback from experienced voice users would be appreciated.
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