We spent some time to make speech recognition backend faster. Ben reports in his blog the results on moving scoring to GPU with CUDA/jCUDA, which reduced scoring time dramatically. That's...

Long time ago when sphinx4 development was active, the team used twiki hosted at CMU. Unlike many open source projects, this wiki was actually not just a collection of random...

Some time ago I was rather encouraged by VTLN which is vocal tract normalization. By so-called frequence warping it tries to unify vocal tract lenght of all speakers and thus...

So, language voting is over. It seems that despite performance issues we currently face Java gets enough attention. Thanks for sharing your opinion, it's very important for us.

ASR today is quite diverse. While in 1998 there was only a HTK package and some inhouse toolkits like CMUSphinx released in 2000, now there are dozen very interesting recognizers...

In scientific paper waterfall we have today I continuously face the issue of  selection of high-level important approaches to the problem. Many ideas are definitely important and lead to accuracy...

We decided to move all our blogs like Ben's blog, news about SearchMyMeetings and others to  http://nexiwave.com. Such consolidaion will help us to manage our resources as well as will...

To continue previous topic about testing I want to share the information about nice paper I read some time ago which I wanted to bring to our daily practices.The issue...

In development and research the critical issue is proper testing. There was some buzz about that recently, for example at MLoss blog where pros for using open data are considered....

Since they are more CMUSphinx official documents, I posted notes about workshop and meetins after that on the website:Sphinx Users And Developers Workshop 2010 ResultsDevelopment Meeting NotesI'm pleased to get...