Archive for June, 2007

Knowledge Transfer Networks

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

KTN Central has links to all the KTNs and some general information, like what KTNs are and what they do. Rather than just paraphrase all that here, I’ll report what actually happens in practice. I’ve joined two KTNs:

Industrial Mathematics
Health Technologies

I’ve also registered to attend a couple of events at i-Health, a three-day […]

Speech Processing for IP Networks: Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP)

Monday, June 25th, 2007

I recommend this book highly to anyone working on speech processing over IP, or indeed to anyone thinking of writing a book on a new technology. See my review for the ACCU magazine CVu, here.

Author’s web page.
Publisher’s web page.

Trefnydd-0.0.2

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Trefnydd is an open-source toolkit for building speech recognition engines. Tools support the compilation of corpora and pronunciation dictionaries, creation of acoustic and language models, and generation of speech recognition engines compatible with the Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP). Trefnydd can be used either via its GUI, or by incorporating the tools directly […]

OpTIC Technium

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

Further to my earlier post, here are a few points about OpTIC you won’t find on their own website:

It was designed and completed in 2004 by Capita Percy Thomas, who also designed the Wales Millennium Centre.
It won two awards in 2005: Building Magazine’s Sustainable Building of the Year, and RICS Wales Building of the Year.
That […]

Speak on the dotted line

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

BBC Radio 4, Sat 16th June 2007, 10:30 - 11:00
Presenter: Rory Bremner
Speakers (in order of appearance):

Melvyn Hunt, Novauris
Chris Woodward, Anana
Colin Howman, SRC
Ian Gibbons, SRC
Tony Benn
Judith Markowitz, speech recognition consultant
Mark Huckvale, UCL
Vance Harris, Voice Vault
Nick Ogden, VoicePay

This programme was an introduction to speaker recognition and speaker verification. It was all pleasant enough: Rory Bremner affable, […]

OpTIC Technium: Collaborative Research and Development Funding Event

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Collaborative Research and Development Funding Event
OpTIC Technium, St. Asaph (Llanelwy)
Weds 130607
Agenda
Apart from registration, ‘welcome’, coffee and lunch breaks, and general milling about (I mean ‘networking’), the day was broken down like this:
Morning: an hour long presentation, followed by one or two short case studies, on each of the following:

Seventh European Framework Programme (FP7)
DTI Collaborative Research […]

Tûkh

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Tûkh is a small village downstream of Cairo. For current purposes, however, Tûkh is a set of scripts for working with the Cairo MRCP server (which I blogged about already). Tûkh has two main objectives:

enable Cairo to be run on Linux
enable Cairo to use recognition resources based on HTK.

As the scripts are written […]

The Wordpress theme for this blog

Friday, June 1st, 2007

The theme for this blog is based on the ‘2-column Left Menu Fixed’ theme at Tomorrows Laundry. I can’t find an address to thank the author directly, so I’ll have to do it here:
Dear Will
I have used your blank theme 2col_fixed_left as the basis for my new Wordpress blog [1]. Thank you very […]