IBM open-sources speech recognition development tools
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IBM Corp. said Monday it will release as open source code some of its software for speech-enabling applications. The move is intended to spur development in the field and outflank rivals by making IBM's free technology the industry standard.
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Honda Motor Co., with help from partner IBM Corp., is preparing to introduce an improved speech-recognition system that will allow drivers to get voice navigation guidance without having to manually punch in any information or take their
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IBM&#39;s motive is not altruistic. By making the software open-source, IBM hopes that other programmers will make improvements, thus speeding the development of speech applications and allowing
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(InfoWorld) - Speech-enabled applications have been around for some time, but they have never reached the level of adoption that proponents of the technology have predicted over the years. IBMÂ is out to change all of that. In New York on Tuesday, the company showcased a host of applications -- both prototypes and commercial -- that its research labs and partners have built incorporating voice recognition and speech technologies. While IBM has been doing research for about 10 years in the speech area, speech-enabled applications have come a long way since the company first introduced dictation technologies to the medical industry, Dr. David Nahamoo, chief technology officer of speech technology at IBM Research, said. And IBM's partners, some of whom were on hand at the event in IBM's Manhattan office to show off applications using IBM ViaVoice technology, are a big part of why speech technology is moving forward, he said. "We're working with partners to make a lot of things happen so we can accelerate the delivery of useful products and offerings in the marketplace," Nahamoo said. Another thing IBM did about a year ago to accelerate the company's ability to offer speech-enabled applications that are "truly useful" to the average person was to integrate its speech research into its core software group, said Dan Miller, an analyst with Opus Research in San Francisco. "[This] means they're willing to bring solutions that involve the full line of WebSphere middleware and application servers along into solutions that indeed involve speech," he said. IBM's long-standing tradition of innovation also brings credibility to speech-enabled applications and could inspire more people to use them, Miller added. At Tuesday's event, companies such as Navigation Pioneer Electronics and All Media Guide showed how they are using Embedded ViaVoice speech-recognition technology in commercial applications. For example, Pioneer's AVIC-Z2 new car navigation system provides detailed driving directions that go beyond the usual "turn left at the next street" with the help of Embedded ViaVoice, said Ted Cardenas, product planning manager, Navigation Pioneer Electronics. "It will actually tell you the street name," he said, adding this is safer because the driver does not have to look at the screen to double-check the street name. The AVIC-Z2 system also learns a driver's driving habits, and will only map out directions that avoid certain freeways and streets if a driver tends to do the same thing, Cardenas said. All Media Guide, which provides information about music, musical artists, songs, and albums for Web sites, online music stores, and other entertainment outlets, has teamed with IBM and Avoca Semiconductor to allow users to interact by voice with their personal media collections, said Zac Johnson, product manager for All Media Guide. Avoca's speech-enabled user interface is called the Media Control Platform, within which is IBM Embedded ViaVoice. All Media Guide provides the engine within the platform that lets people use voice capabilities to find artists and songs they want to listen to, he said. For example, a user can tell the system it wants to hear Bruce Springsteen, or "Play The Boss," using his nickname to identify him, Johnson said. The technology can work with a variety of devices on which users store their digital media, such as PCs, iPods, or MP3 players. IBM faces its stiffest competition from Nuance Communications in the speech technology market, but another big software competitor, Microsoft, also is moving into the space, Opus's Miller said. In particular, Microsoft is focused on embedding voice into its Office Communication Server collaboration software, he said. This will provide some interesting competitive offerings down the road as IBM also is doing the same with its Lotus/Sametime collaboration suite, Miller said. "I think those companies are really pushing each other to innovate in that area," he said.
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New findings on how people make sounds could lead to better speech recognition and synthesis.
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Researchers are hoping to help the federal government sort through data in various languages by developing software that can quickly cull and analyze text and speech.
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In this second and final part I'll demonstrate some of the loop-specific tools I've found in Ardour, Reaper, and Audacity. Tutorials and links to project demos are included, so warm up your headphones and let's get loopy.
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Microsoft-endorsed Open XML Translator project releases downloadable ODF converter.
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VMukti is an open source innovative multi-point unified extensible collaborative conferencing communication system, with built-in support for access to platform features through Personalized, Mash-able RIA web-interface, Light widget for 3rd party sites, Desktops, PSTN, Mobile and IP phones developed in .NET 3.5 technology.   Its core features include online Video conferencing, Audio conferencing, Chat, File search, Whiteboard, File-sharing, Presentation, Remote monitoring/controlling/sharing, CRM and reports, all at use very low Bandwidth /CPU/Memory usage.  A lot of bugs and issues now have been resolved in the new 1.0.3.0 release and is one of the most stable alpha versions of VMukti. This release contains mostly bug fixes and windows service based server interface. Now VMukti supports most of its core features.   We would like to give a big thanks to all those reported bugs and sent us bugs attachments.  More info: http://www.vmukti.com/index.php  Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=162339
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During the construction of my 64-bit box I collected enough spare parts to build another machine, one destined for a 32-bit Linux system. Last week I finally got that machine built and running with a sparkling new version of the Jacklab Audio Distribution (JAD). I've been using JAD in its alpha releases, but the new box is running the first beta version. Various improvements have been made in JAD since my earlier review, including the adoption of a 2.6.19 kernel optimized for superb realtime performance. Since I've profiled the system in an earlier blog entry I decided to briefly review some of the more unusual software included with the distribution or built with the help of its development packages. JAD contains more than 70 applications for audio and video composition and production, most of which are at their most recent release versions, so come join me in a look at some less typical sound &amp; music software running on one of the best of the new breed of multimedia-optimized Linux distributions.
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OpenSong is a free software application for managing chords and lyrics sheets (lead sheets), presenting lyrics (and custom slides) using a projector, and much more! Great for worship leaders and musicians! This next release contains quite a few bug fixes, set list printing, proxy support, module loading, a new background image chooser, backgrounds folders, songs folders, multiple themes per song, key field, aka field, key line field, ccli import now imports the new song fields, configurable alert font, live scripture browsing during presentations, HTML song export, and more! Everything has been moved around and optimized. Now with multiple language support. This is a great update to 0.9.8.   You can find the latest release here:  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=108754&package_id=117409
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New software synchronizes Research In Motion devices with Mac OS X.
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Using modified voice-recognition software, researchers from several universities and Disney's Animal Kingdom are trying to learn how to "talk" like animals.
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IBM has contributed speech technology to the Apache Software Foundation. By releasing its source code IBM hopes to bring a quick end to battles over competing, proprietary standards; solidifying the industry behind VoiceXML.
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I think I've mentioned this before but on Saturday Feb 12th I'll be talking  about the Jakarta FeedParser at CodeCon  in San Francisco.  I published an outline  of the talk on the FeedParser wiki.  I'm hoping to have a 0.5 release done before then and havepotentially another suprise in the works.
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TechWeb - Esper issues the first production release of its open-source Esper event-stream processing and event-correlation engine.
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IBM have developed an audio interface so that blind people can take part in online gaming.