Archive for the 'MRCP' Category

Android and the Open Handset Alliance

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

This story is all over the net and the papers. Most of the stories just regurgitate the official press releases, which are here. By now everyone will know what it is, so I won’t bore you with that here.
The OHA developers’ page says that they “will make available an early look at the […]

OpenMRCP (2)

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

I finally managed to have a look at OpenMRCP.
Installation
Compilation and installation goes smoothly enough - as long as you have the right versions of everything, in the right places (e.g., sofia-sip has to be in /usr/local/include/).
Fake TTS/ASR demos
The OpenMRCP webpage shows how to use OpenMRCP client and server for TTS and ASR. No real […]

OpenMRCP

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Just read this story at earthtimes.org. I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet, but OpenMRCP could be very useful indeed.

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.

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 […]

Exploring Cairo

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Cairo is a city in Egypt. For our current purposes however, Cairo is an MRCP server written in Java. The project homepage is here.
Why am I interested in MRCP? Trefnydd generates acoustic models (AMs) based on HTK, and I should like Trefnydd to provide MRCP speech recognition resources based on these AMs.
Before you […]