Useful Speech and Dialog links
Audio Analysis
SOX
Analyze your audio with the "Swiss Army Knife" of audio processing
- http://sox.sourceforge.net/
- Copy it into /Applications/ and double click on the compressed file (if it didn't open into a directory by itself).
- Set the path environment variable from the terminal command line: export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/sox-14.4.1/
Record files on vocaroo.com
Wavesurfer and Transcriber are available on the department computers, but in case you want to download them yourself, here are the links:
- Wave Surfer: http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/
- Transcriber 1.5.1 http://sourceforge.net/projects/trans/files/transcriber/
Speech Synthesis
Speech Technology and Speech Recognition: AT&T Labs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0uwydE0HaA&feature=youtube_gdata
Phonetics
Interesting Articles
Project Ouch - Outing Unfortunate Characteristics of HMMs (Used for Speech Recognition): http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/speech/ouch
http://voiceinthemachine.com/2012/07/03/whats-wrong-with-speech-recognition/
Vlingo Unveils Top 10 Voice Searches