[ale] Voxforge: An open source project that needs *your* help

[Jesse Guardiani]

Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 11:54 -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
>>> The call and record idea would work nicely if all we wanted was PSTN
>>> quality
>>> recognition via something like asterisk. It might make a nice side
>>> project.
>>> I'll run the idea by the voxforge peeps. Thanks!
>>>
>> I'm thinking of an easy way to get the data.  Right now the method is
>> too complex for many non-geeks to provide data.
> 
> 
> I agree completely and so does the voxforge admin from what I've read on the forum and from their Google Summer of Code list:
> http://www.voxforge.org/home/forums/message-boards/google-summer-of-code/software-client-to-permit-users-to-record-and-submit-their-speech-audio-to-the-voxforge-web-site#EaEtvSVkI9bzM-4Pdn-1Ng
> 
> Using asterisk and PSTN for recording would be very similar to a software system with the following trade-offs:
> 1.) No need to purchase a mic. Everyone has a phone.
> 2.) Audio quality is reduced, meaning that any resulting speech corpus would be unusable for recognition at higher bit rates (i.e. desktop dictation)
> 
> Still, I believe PSTN and similar environments are a large part of the market for this technology anyway, so it might make a lot of sense as a side project.


I have created an asterisk >= 1.2.x dialplan IVR for VoxForge and I'm currently looking for someone to volunteer PRI space for hosting.
The IVR is 95% finished. I just need to get the automated submission system online and see if we need any copy changes. If anyone is
interested in hosting it I would be happy to provide the number to an active demo in a private email.

Thanks!


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Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at guardiani.us