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A short 1-2 day workshop introducing speech recognition and speech synthesis techniques for the creation of interactive artwork. We use pre-compiled open-source tools (CMU Sphinx ASR and Festival TTS), and focus on the specifics of language model construction and creative deployment of the technologies as vehicles for creating meaning. | A short 1-2 day workshop introducing speech recognition and speech synthesis techniques for the creation of interactive artwork. We use pre-compiled open-source tools (CMU Sphinx ASR and Festival TTS), and focus on the specifics of language model construction and creative deployment of the technologies as vehicles for creating meaning. | ||
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Revision as of 09:37, 18 September 2013
Contents
Introduction
Speaking with Machines
A short 1-2 day workshop introducing speech recognition and speech synthesis techniques for the creation of interactive artwork. We use pre-compiled open-source tools (CMU Sphinx ASR and Festival TTS), and focus on the specifics of language model construction and creative deployment of the technologies as vehicles for creating meaning.
Saturday Sept 21, 2-6pm Centro Cultural de Borges UNTREF.
Background Reading:
- If Things Can Talk, What Do They Say? If We Can Talk to Things, What Do We Say? Natalie Jeremijenko. 2005-03-05 [1]
- also see the responses by Simon Penny, Lucy Suchmann, and Natalie linked from that page.
- Dialogue with a Monologue: Voice Chips and the Products of Abstract Speech. [2]
Automatic Speech Recognition
Introduction
- pocketsphinx on win32 - http://www.aiaioo.com/cms/index.php?id=28
Installing CMU Sphinx
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/download/
Language Models
Acoustic models versus language models.
Grammars versus Satistical Language Models.
Available language models. English, Mandarin, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and more: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/files/Acoustic%20and%20Language%20Models/
Using sphinx
- open a terminal. Windows, Run->Cmd.
- change to the pocketsphinx directory.
cd Desktop\untref_speech\pocketsphinx-0.8-win32\bin\Release
- run the pocketsphinx command to recognize english:
pocketsphinx_continuous.exe -hmm ..\..\model\hmm\en_US\hub4wsj_sc_8k -dict ..\..\model\lm\en_US\cmu07a.dic -lm ..\..\model\lm\en_US\hub4.5000.DMP
- recognize spanish:
pocketsphinx_continuous.exe -hmm ..\..\model\hmm\es_MX\hub4_spanish_itesm.cd_cont_2500 -dict ..\..\model\lm\es_MX\h4.dict -lm ..\..\model\lm\es_MX\H4.arpa.Z.DMP- this should transcribe live from the microphone.
Training your own Models
grammer is trivial.
slm, can use online tools. or try the sphinxtrain packages.
Programming with Speech Recognition
Processing. Sphinx4, the java interface.
Python or c++, command line, android. pocketsphinx.
Text To Speech Synthesis
Introduction
FestVox. CMU Speech group.
Festival from University of Edinburgh.
Installation
Test It
- http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/onlinedemo.html
- Spanish (UVIGO Spanish Male)
- American English
- Others...
