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

[Jesse Guardiani]

Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> 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!


We finally found managed to find some asterisk IVR hosting for this project. You can now submit audio using your telephone!
http://www.voxforge.org/home/submitspeech


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Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at guardiani.us