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Re: I'm back

• Posted by Dan Moyer <danielmoyer at prodigy.net> Jun 10, 2006
• 689 views

don cole wrote:

> Hello Dan,
> 
> I'm also sorry to hear about your losses. Both my parents pass on about ten
> years ago so I've kind of gotten over that. They both passed young though. 
> Mom 52 (breast cancer), Dad 64 (car accident) so I felt like I like I was
> cheated
> a little bit.
> 
> Any way did you check the archives?
> 
> \<a
> href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=voice">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=voice</a>
> 
> C Bouzy has a Voice_Check() that may or may not be what you want.
> 
> Don Cole
>  Bonds > Ruth.
>  Giants STILL in last place 
>  Hmmmmmmmm!

Don,

Thanks, gotta agree with "cheated".

I had checked out C Bouzy Speech Library, and although I didn't look
specifically at Voice_Check() itself, it appeared that the library "only" 
deals with text-to-speech and speech-to-text, which, while interesting in
itself, isn't without problems in the actual translation from vocal input
to text (ie, it makes some mistakes).  So while that approach would save
a lot of disk space, in contrast to saving the vocal input as .wav, it would
also be like translating a piece of English text to Russian, and then
the Russian back into English...you might very likely NOT 
get back what you started with.

I figure if I can get a program to save vocal input to a file, it would be a 
lot easier for my mother to understand her own voice when the file is 
retrieved, than if her vocal input were translated into text (with mistakes),
and then later back to robot sound from the text with mistakes.

Dan