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speech recognition lvkeegan 07-17-05
Posted by on July 17, 2005, 10:36 am
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I am working on a system of PIC microcontrollers in which there will
be communication between computer and user. The computer will choose
from a menu of Chipcorder messages, but the user or operator, I want to
utilize a small vocabulary of spoken words.

I am learning that there some speech recognition chips available, and
even setting these up I realize is not a trivial task. But I would like
to do the experimenting with A/D and DAC and digitizing individual
words and working on algorithms for comparing the operators spoken
word with a stored template. This might even lead me into pattern
recognition and neural network technologies.

Has anyone experimented in these areas or set up any type of speech
recognition system?


Posted by Rich Grise on July 18, 2005, 4:33 pm
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On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:36:22 -0700, lvkeegan wrote:

> I am working on a system of PIC microcontrollers in which there will
> be communication between computer and user. The computer will choose
> from a menu of Chipcorder messages, but the user or operator, I want to
> utilize a small vocabulary of spoken words.
>
> I am learning that there some speech recognition chips available, and
> even setting these up I realize is not a trivial task. But I would like
> to do the experimenting with A/D and DAC and digitizing individual
> words and working on algorithms for comparing the operators spoken
> word with a stored template. This might even lead me into pattern
> recognition and neural network technologies.
>
> Has anyone experimented in these areas or set up any type of speech
> recognition system?

I made a sort of "spectrum analyzer" with eight active filters
spaced across about 300Hz - 3KHz, kinda like those displays on
a "graphic equalizer". I found out that when you take the
fundamental out, that each phoneme has a unique spectrum,
regardless who's talking! I got hung up on the pattern
matching algorithm, however.

These days they'd probably do the whole thing with DSP
or something.

Good Luck!
Rich



Posted by Robert Baer on July 20, 2005, 12:47 pm
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Rich Grise wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:36:22 -0700, lvkeegan wrote:
>
>
>>I am working on a system of PIC microcontrollers in which there will
>>be communication between computer and user. The computer will choose
>>from a menu of Chipcorder messages, but the user or operator, I want to
>>utilize a small vocabulary of spoken words.
>>
>>I am learning that there some speech recognition chips available, and
>>even setting these up I realize is not a trivial task. But I would like
>>to do the experimenting with A/D and DAC and digitizing individual
>>words and working on algorithms for comparing the operators spoken
>>word with a stored template. This might even lead me into pattern
>>recognition and neural network technologies.
>>
>>Has anyone experimented in these areas or set up any type of speech
>>recognition system?
>
>
> I made a sort of "spectrum analyzer" with eight active filters
> spaced across about 300Hz - 3KHz, kinda like those displays on
> a "graphic equalizer". I found out that when you take the
> fundamental out, that each phoneme has a unique spectrum,
> regardless who's talking! I got hung up on the pattern
> matching algorithm, however.
>
> These days they'd probably do the whole thing with DSP
> or something.
>
> Good Luck!
> Rich
>
>
Bell called the various phonemes "formants" as i remember.
They evenhad a kit using various LC resonators that one could combine
combinations at selected amplitudes to create these formants - to make
the vowels.

Posted by Joe G \(Home\) on July 18, 2005, 4:58 pm
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Checkout Sensory Inc

A single chip can do all the PIC work as well as the VR.

http://www.sensoryinc.com/

JG

>I am working on a system of PIC microcontrollers in which there will
> be communication between computer and user. The computer will choose
> from a menu of Chipcorder messages, but the user or operator, I want to
> utilize a small vocabulary of spoken words.
>
> I am learning that there some speech recognition chips available, and
> even setting these up I realize is not a trivial task. But I would like
> to do the experimenting with A/D and DAC and digitizing individual
> words and working on algorithms for comparing the operators spoken
> word with a stored template. This might even lead me into pattern
> recognition and neural network technologies.
>
> Has anyone experimented in these areas or set up any type of speech
> recognition system?
>



Posted by on July 18, 2005, 2:49 pm
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Joe G
Thanks very much - this is exciting to see all these features
incorporated into the microprocessor itself, ans also their software
packages. I wsaved the link and will be studying it carefully. Thanks.
Larry Keegan


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