Very remarkable and long waited release happened recently. The Polish multisyn voice for the Festival TTS system was made available. This is the best multisyn voice available nowdays both in...

Sequitur g2p by M. Bisani and H. Ney. is a cool package for the letter to phone translation, quite accurate and, the most important, open. But actually there are different...

This August I'm going to US again to Chicago to ClueCon where I'll give the talk titled "The use of open source speech recognition". Here is the small outline:The most...

I'm on Gran Canaria!

Recently I've left Zyxel where I worked for three years on a Linux-based home class router (CPE). It was a nice place to where I've met wonderful friends and learned...

I spent some time converting sphinx4 to Java5, mostly changing the loops dropping iterators. I hope it will not just make the code cleaner but give us a few bits...

MFCC features used in speech recogition are still a reasonable choice if you want to recognize generic speech. With tunings like frequency wrap for VTLN and MLLT they still can...

Actually all the data required for quite precise text summarization is almost in place, one should just add support for WordNet from nltk into the Open Text Summarizer, calculate frequencies...

I just voted for VoxForge in the category: "Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything". You might want to do the same :)Go to http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/?project_name=VoxForge&project_url=http://voxforge.org/

CSTR and others are pleased to announce that the listening tests for the Blizzard Challenge 2009 are now running. The Blizzard Challenge is an annual open speech synthesis evaluation in...