On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:49 AM, Abhilash Mhaisne <abhilashmhaisne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sir / Madam, > I am an engineering student, and gsoc aspirant. I want to > develop a easy-to-use voice recognition system, which would be capable of > judging even minor changes in accents, for fedora systems. And I'd like a pony, with pretty wings that can fly to Jupiter and makes cookies. More seriously, voice recognition is one of the great challenges of the last 50 years of speech analysis, approached by large and small companies and research labs around the world. "Judging even minor changes in accents" is a nightmare in real work: every commercially available computer microphone system for the last few decades has made the same basic mistake for collecting speech. They completely screw up "plosives", sounds like "b" and "p" that have a lot of high frequency information that gets completely munged by the digitization and undersampling. And do not get me *started* on the ongoing fallacy that "if we just collect more speech samples, we'll somehow be able to analyze them". I'm aware of companies with software patents spending many millions of investment money in the work, and they're still getting their ass handed to them in the marketplace by smaller, local apps that handle basic speech locally and *don't try to get fancy*. And in case it's not clear: I did artificial hearing research for a dozen years, designing electronics for cochlear implants. Every modern microphone=>speech analysis system screws up the plosives, for a stack of reasons we could discuss elsewhere. > I wish to implement this system in python, making use of > the open source CMU Sphinx system. I would love to do this under a mentor > for gsoc 2015. > > Regards! > > Abhilash Mhaisne See above. "voice recognition" and accent immunity is not a "python" sort of problem, it's a massive ongoing computer and speech research issue. Pick something *smaller*. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
