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Re: [lojban] Speech Recognition for Lojban



coi do

> *But first we need a speech recognition tool for Lojban.* Any ideas? Has
> anyone in Lojban community done this before? And any resources related to
> this?

This idea pops up every now and then, yes.
However, I don't know of any really successful approach.

In 2008 there has been a project by a couple of cognitive science students
to implement speech recognition for lojban at the university of Osnabrueck.
After (quite) some nagging they provided me with a folder of (really few)
training data and some scripts they used back then.

It doesn't look like they had a lot of fun with it though:
> We decided to try the impossible:
> Use the speech recognition toolkit of CMU to build a speech recognizer for a non-English language.

Also, it seems a lot has changed w.r.t. open source
speech recognition engines in the last couple of years.
ti'e CMU Sphinx got rewritten and other (potentially capable)
speech recognition engines like julius appeared.

I didn't get around to play with any of these, although I'm still
interested in a working/usable FOSS speech recognition tool for Lojban.

Btw: In theory it is, by design, much more easy to do speech recognition with Lojban
than with most natural human languages because of the audio-visual isomorphism.
It prevents hard questions like "Why is there a 'k' in knight?" .u'i


mi'e la .van. mu'o

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