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...

So, I'm back from ICASSP in Dallas, TX. It was very impressive conference with lots of interesting and inspiring presentations, meetings and discussions. Amazing everyone was there and I've finally...

So, almost according to schedule, sphinx4 was released yesterday. Check the notes athttp://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/2010/03/sphinx4-1-0-beta-4-released/Most notable improvements were already discussed here, so let me try to plan what the next release will...

From year to year many end-user projecs are trying to push ASR with the help of Google and studens of the Summer Of Code program. If CMUSphinx team knows all...

There is a huge gap between stock sphinx4 and real ASR system since critical parts like noise filtering, speaker diarization and postprocessing are missing. Not to mention the online adaptation....

After seeing flash websites take enormous amount of my CPU got a cool idea today about using flash for distributed computing. Basically everything is already in place. You setup webserver,...

What I really like in Sphinxtrain is that it provides straightforward way for training an audio model. It remains unclear for me why everyone bothers with HTKBook while there is...

Recently I've got interested in quite a large domain of speech recognition research where old school linguistic meets modern speech recognition. Basically the idea is that in spontaneous speech variativity...

Recently I invented new nice concept for marketing people. Basicallly there are three generations of IVR systems right now:Generation 1.0 - Static systems based on VoiceXML. It was suprising for...