Sphinx-4 is released!
It is with great pleasure that we announce the Alpha 0.1 release of Sphinx-4:
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/sphinx4
Sphinx-4 is a state-of-the-art, speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system written entirely in the Java programming language. It was created via a joint collaboration between the Sphinx group at Carnegie Mellon University, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), and Hewlett Packard (HP), with contributions from the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The design of Sphinx-4 is based on patterns that have emerged from the design of past systems as well as new requirements based on areas that researchers currently want to explore. To exercise this framework, and to provide researchers with a "research-ready" system, Sphinx-4 also includes several implementations of both simple and state-of-the-art techniques. The framework and the implementations are all freely available via open source under a very generous BSD-style license.
With the Alpha 0.1 release, you get the complete Sphinx-4 source tree along with several acoustic and language models capable of handling a variety of tasks ranging from simple digit recognition to large vocabulary n-Gram recognition.
Because it is written entirely in the Java programming language, Sphinx-4 can run on a variety of platforms without requiring any special compilation or changes. We've tested Sphinx-4 on the following platforms with success: the Solaris 9 Operating System on the SPARC platform, Mac OS X 10.3.3, RedHat 9.0, Fedora Core 1, Microsoft Windows XP, and Microsoft Windows 2000.
Please give Sphinx-4 0.1 alpha a try and post your questions, comments, and feedback to one of the CMU Sphinx Forums:
https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=1904
We can also be reached at [email protected]
Sincerely,
The Sphinx-4 Team: Evandro Gouvea, CMU (developer and speech advisor)
(in alph. order) Philip Kwok, Sun Labs (developer)
Paul Lamere, Sun Labs (design/technical lead)
Beth Logan, HP (speech advisor)
Pedro Moreno, Google (speech advisor)
Bhiksha Raj, MERL (design lead)
Mosur Ravishankar, CMU (speech advisor)
Bent Schmidt-Nielsen, MERL (speech advisor)
Rita Singh, CMU/MIT (design/speech advisor)
JM Van Thong, HP (speech advisor)
Willie Walker, Sun Labs (overall lead)
Manfred Warmuth, USCS (speech advisor)
Joe Woelfel, MERL (developer and speech advisor)
Peter Wolf, MERL (developer and speech advisor)