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I’ve released OpenEars 1.01 today, a bugfix update for the following three issues:
• Leaks in the dynamic language model generation process could crash the device,
• When using a very small model, the discounting method used by the language model generation process could occasionally result in certain words having …
SpeexKit: Speex for iPhone
It is my pleasure to announce a new Politepix framework product for developers: SpeexKit 1.0.
What is Speex?
Speex is one of the best codecs for voice audio transmission available, with clear quality and excellent compression characteristics. It is a great match for mobile speech applications …
I am extraordinarily happy to announce that OpenEars 1.0 is out now. This version has so many fixes and new features:
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I’m happy to announce the release of OpenEars .912, a bugfix release fixing the following issues:
• OpenEarsEventsObserver was never receiving a delegate message when a language model was being changed (thanks to Aleksey for finding this bug)
• LanguageModelGenerator was not finding alternate pronunciations of a word (thanks to …
I’m proud to release OpenEars version .911, primarily a bugfix fixing the following issues:
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• Occasional crash in level metering after 20 minutes of use
• There is now no limit on the size of the language model that can be …
Hello,
I just uploaded the new version of OpenEars, featuring the following new stuff among other things:
• All audio functions (Flite speech and Pocketsphinx recognition) handled in-memory
• Low-latency Audio Unit audio driver for Pocketsphinx
• Switching between all the Flite voices on the fly
• Dynamically creating …
Here’s another Applescript* tool for dealing with the Simulator, since I seem to be on an Applescript/Simulator kick**. Maybe I’m the only one with this problem: a common use of the Simulator for me is testing code that writes out to the Documents folder of the app. And yet, it’s …
This is an update on my old post here: Consider Yourself Warned.
I wanted to share a tool that I use in as part of checking an app for behaving correctly under low memory warnings, to the extent that is possible to do so using the Simulator. It’s an …
Just a quick note that OpenEars 0.9.02 is out now – this is a maintenance release which fixes a couple of bugs and adds two new features: 1) meaningful recognition confidence scores, and 2) the ability to use JSGF grammars. As always, please check out the forums to get support.…
When you think of the crane, Brandenburg is perhaps not what springs immediately to mind, yet every October the village of Linum in our neighboring state is host to the largest or near-largest congregation of Eurasian Cranes in Europe. As many as 80,000 of the overall European population of 400,000 …
