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...
Training of the large database requires a cluster. SphinxTrain supports training on Torque:PBS for example, to do this you need to set the following configuration variables:$CFG_QUEUE_TYPE = "Queue::PBS";and set the...
After quite a lot of training of the model on a small part of database to test things I came to conclusion that the main issue is a bad prompts....
Inspired by Daniel's Holth application to remove word "twitter" from podcasts:http://dingoskidneys.com/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/twitterkiller/I think it's a very good idea to implement keyword filter to block advertizing in podcasts. Though support for keyword...
Recently the option to bypass delta and delta-delta feature extraction process and directly apply LDA transform matrix to the cepstrum coefficients of sequential frames was added to sphinxtrain. To use...
I've read some books on business recently:Project Management 10 Days MBA Marketing They sometimes repeat each other but actually have few interesting moments. At least I started to look on...
I decided to finally go forward and publish my modifications of frama-c Eclipse plugin I'm doing at work. Moreover I decided to try git/github. Let's see how it goes. The...
After almost a year of wondering I finally discovered what does this mean in sphinx4 config files: <component name="activeListManager" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.search.SimpleActiveListManager"> <propertylist name="activeListFactories"> <item>standardActiveListFactory</item> <item>wordActiveListFactory</item> <item>wordActiveListFactory</item> <item>standardActiveListFactory</item> <item>standardActiveListFactory</item> <item>standardActiveListFactory</item> </propertylist> </component>Actually...
Today with the help of my chief I've found FindBugs, a nice static analyzer that tries to find the issues in Java code and reports about them. It's a very...
This change started some time ago, but now it's mostly finished and announced. The tree could be found here:https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=git&group_id=257562The discussion is here.I'm glad to see the progress happens, big thanks...