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		<title>Open source speech recognition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Henry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open source speech recognition software needs large samples of transcribed speech recording to make up an acoustic model. The VoxForge project is building acoustic models for English, German, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Russian.  You can contribute to one of these languages from your computer, recording and uploading to VoxForge&#8217;s site, or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Open source <a href=http://www.voxforge.org/home/docs/faq/faq/what-is-the-difference-between-a-speech-recognition-engine-and-a-speech-recognition-system>speech recognition software</a> needs large samples of transcribed speech recording to make up an acoustic model. The <a href=http://www.voxforge.org>VoxForge</a> project is building acoustic models for English, German, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Russian.  You can contribute to one of these languages from your computer, recording and uploading to VoxForge&#8217;s site, or by telephone. It looks very easy to contribute, and it will then be licensed under the GPL.</p>
<blockquote><p>Most acoustic models used by &#8216;Open Source&#8217; speech recognition (or Speech-to-Text) engines are &#8216;Closed Source&#8217;.  They do not give you access to the speech audio and transcriptions (i.e. the speech corpus) used to create the acoustic model.</p>
<p>The reason for this is that Free and Open Source (&#8216;FOSS&#8217;) projects are required to purchase large speech corpora with restrictive licensing.  Although there are a few instances of small FOSS speech corpora that could be used to create acoustic models, the vast majority of corpora (especially large corpora best suited to building good acoustic models) must be purchased under restrictive licenses.</p></blockquote>
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