Blizzard 2009 results available

It was pleasant to find out that results of the Blizzard Challenge 2009 are now available. Thanks a lot ot organizers and participants!Reading the articles took me half of the...

Another cool bit if hardware for database training.

It's sometimes hard to adopt quickly the new opportunities world provide. I'm being reading now Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen. Thanks to Ellias for the advice, it really seems...

CMU Sphinx Users and Developers Workshop 2010

I'm happy to announceThe First CMU Sphinx Workshop20 March 2010, Dallas, TX, USAEvent URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sphinx/Sphinx2010Papers are solicited for the CMU Sphinx Workshop for Users and Developers (CMU-SPUD 2010), to be...

Using HTK models in sphinx4

As from yesterday long waited cool patch by Christophe Cerisara with the help of super fast Yaniv Kunda has landed in svn trunk. Now you can use HTK model directly...

Speech Recognition As Experimental Science

It's well known there are two types of physics - theoretical one and experimental. During the school I always liked doing the last, measuring the speed of a ball or...

The First Glance On The Interspeech 2009 Papers

Interspeech 2009 in Brighton is over today. Unfortunately I wasn't able to particiapte for various reasons. Still, it was very interesting to review the list of sessions, abstracts and read...

Modern ASR practices review

I was never able to completely join the scientific world, most probably because engineering tasks are more attractive. Though I graduated as a mathematician, my merits aren't worth mentioning. For...

Initial value problem for MLLT

So far I've recently discovered with the help of mchammer2007 the problem with estimation of the initial matrix for MLLT training. The MLLT or Maximum Likelihood Linear Transform is suggested...

Adaptation Methods

It's really hard to collect information on practical application of speech recognition tools. For example the wonderful quote from Andrew Morris on htk-users about what to update during MAP adaptation:Exactly...

Time to buy the new video card

Everybody plays with training and recognition on a GPU now. 200x improvement on NVidia CUDA is worth time and money. Moreover that the sample code is already available.Thanks to prym...