<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Pocketsphinx works great for telephony.. just don't load 10000 word dictionary or grammar :P the pizza demo uses it.. and it works great from every phone I have tested it with... Rome wasn't built in a day and we need more people that have the skills to really build a general purpose acoustical model that works in more situations. <div><br></div><div>/b<br><div><div>On Jan 12, 2009, at 11:46 AM, <a href="mailto:mszlazak@aol.com">mszlazak@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Yup, or just get pocketsphinx "tuned" up for telephony and then no one will have to bother with ASR vendors.<br><br>I believe that some speech data from a good size sample for training is needed to make it more "speaker independent" and better suited for use with phone calls. I have a list of things from the Sphinx forums that would be good to have for a telephony ready PocketSphinx. There is a "wsj" database but I don't know if that's would help??<br><br>Best. Mark.</span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>