GSOC 2012 Accepted Projects Announced

We are happy to announce a list of students which will participate in Google Summer Of Code 2012 project with CMUSphinx organization:

Letter to Phoneme Conversion in sphinx4

Task

Currently sphinx4 can only work with predefined dictionary. It's possible to build phonetic dictionary automatically but it requires both application of machine learning for training and development of decoder module as well as testing. Various language modules needs to be trained as well. This work will be implement letter to sound rules with OpenFST in sphinx4.

Student John Salatas

Pronunciation Evaluation

Task

Implement the simple reading and pronunciation learning system

Students

Srikanth Ronanki and Troy Lee

Semantic language model

Current language models are very basic that means they don't really understand what's transcribed. That affects error rate. Create a decoder over the lattices that will select semantically correct path and create a perfectly readable result.

Student

Wencan Luo

Postprocessing punctuation and capitalization framework

Create language-independent postprocessing framework that will turn ASR results into something readable with punctuation, abbreviations and capitalization.

http://www.makapa.de/Paulik_Sent_ICASSP08.pdf

Student

Alexandru-Dan Tomescu

Web Data Collection For Language Modeling

Write a crawler which can collect text data for language model training on certain topic

Student

Emre Çelikten

We expect great features implemented this summer. Please stay tuned, the news will appear here.

Podcast About CMUSphinx History

Hello CMUSphinx User and Developers

If you are interested in CMUSphinx history or just want to become more familar with core CMUSphinx developers and listen to them you can now do so. Recently Sourceforge team and Rich Bowen has made a great podcast with the CMUSphinx team

Check it out

https://sourceforge.net/blog/podcast-cmusphinx/

CMUSphinx powers mobile dictation application

Sonalight, which showed off its product at this week’s Y Combinator Demo Day, thinks voice tech is better put to use tackling real issues users have with their mobiles in everyday settings, like texting while driving. Sonalight actually employs Google’s own existing voice recognition tech, in combination with the CMU Sphinx open source software, to achieve its results. This is a great use case for CMUSphinx.

Visit

http://sonalight.com/

To try it.

onalight actually employs Google’s own existing voice recognition tech, in combination with the CMU Sphinx open source software, to achieve its results.

CMUSphinx at GSOC 2012

We are pleased to announce that CMUSphinx project is accepted to Google Summer Of Code 2012 program. That will enable us to help several students to start their way in speech recognition, open source development and in CMUSphinx. We are really excited about that.

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/cmusphinx

If you are interested to participate as a student, an application period will open soon but it’s better to start preparation of your application right now. Feel free to contact us for any questoins! For more details see:

https://cmusphinx.github.io/wiki/summerofcodestudents

If you would like to be a mentor please sign in into gsoc web application and add your ideas to the ideas list:

https://cmusphinx.github.io/wiki/summerofcodeideas

We invite you to participate!