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Here is something that would make FS's VAD much better. The technique also improved Sphinx-3 performance in low-SNR enviroments and made it run over 40% faster.<br>
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Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Ways of Integrating Sphinx...<br>
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<div>On May 1, 2009, at 6:03 PM, <a href="mailto:mszlazak@aol.com">mszlazak@aol.com</a> wrote:</div>
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I've checking out mod_pocketshinx against other asr's on Windows with the same hardware.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
No matter what settings one tries, mod_pocketsphinx is virtually unusable in real world scenarios.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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<div>I have used it and it works fine... I think your expectations are a bit high for it... Complex things like dictation is not what PocketSphinx is for. You should try linux cuz I know it works great there.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">One can play around with mod_pocketsphinx settings so that it picks voice up well but then there better not be any background noise either from a bad connection or just everyday sounds.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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<div>There is no other ASR out there that doesn't get pissed off at background noise or any noise for that matter... have you called AT&T and Sprint lately? My dogs barking in the background really send theirs into fits and they paid tons of money for it. </div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">It just way to sensitive and of couse you'll notice this problem most with cell phones.<br>
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<div>Same with commercial ASR, Granted the acoustical model for PocketSphinx wasn't done with any files recorded from cellphone from what I can tell. You can do adaptation of the acoustical model as per the Sphinx wiki to make it more accurate for your needs.... that takes time and effort but it works.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">If you adjust the settings to try blocking out background noise you'll find you don't suceed all that well and then there are problems picking up the callers voice.<br>
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<div>Those settings are for telling when the person stopped talking... nothing more.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">It looks like some kind of signal pre-processing is required that isn't in place yet but we all know that this is a work-in progress.<br>
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<div>I'm not working on it... I run the pizza demo with PS and it works from my polycom rather well I would say it gets some things wrong but it does score them low so you can verify it in your scripts.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">I don't know if esl would make any difference. To use FS and an ASR/TTS I just bridge calls to another ASR application for now.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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