Open Source Text Processing Project: CMU Flite

CMU Flite: a small, fast run time synthesis engine Project Website: http://www.festvox.org/flite/ Github Link: None Description CMU Flite (festival-lite) is a small, fast run-time open source text to speech synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded … Continue reading

Open Source Text Processing Project: MaryTTS

MaryTTS: The MARY Text-to-Speech System Project Website: http://mary.dfki.de/ Github Link: None Description MaryTTS is an open-source, multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis platform written in Java. It was originally developed as a collaborative project of DFKI’s Language Technology Lab and the Institute of … Continue reading

Open Source Text Processing Project: Festival

The Festival Speech Synthesis System Project Website: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ Github Link: None Description Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through … Continue reading

Open Source Text Processing Project: PyJulius

PyJulius: Python interface to Julius speech recognition engine Project Website: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyjulius Github Link: https://github.com/Diaoul/pyjulius Description pyjulius provides a simple interface to connect to julius module server First you will need to run julius with the -module option (documentation here or … Continue reading

Open Source Text Processing Project: eSpeak

eSpeak text to speech Project Website: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Github Link: None Description eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows. http://espeak.sourceforge.net eSpeak uses a “formant synthesis” method. This allows many languages … Continue reading

Open Source Text Processing Project: Julius

Julius: Open-Source Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Engine Project Website: http://julius.osdn.jp/ Github Link: https://github.com/julius-speech/julius Description “Julius” is a high-performance, small-footprint large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder software for speech-related researchers and developers. Based on word N-gram and context-dependent HMM, … Continue reading

Open Source Text Processing Project: Kaldi

Kaldi Speech Recognition Toolkit Project Website: http://kaldi-asr.org/ Github Link: https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi Description What is Kaldi? Kaldi is a toolkit for speech recognition written in C++ and licensed under the Apache License v2.0. Kaldi is intended for use by speech recognition researchers. … Continue reading

Open Source Text Processing Project: pocketsphinx-ruby

pocketsphinx-ruby: Ruby speech recognition with Pocketsphinx Project Website: None Github Link: https://github.com/watsonbox/pocketsphinx-ruby Description This gem provides Ruby FFI bindings for Pocketsphinx, a lightweight speech recognition engine, specifically tuned for handheld and mobile devices, though it works equally well on the … Continue reading

Open Source Text Processing Project: pocketsphinx-python

pocketsphinx-python: Python interface to CMU SphinxBase and PocketSphinx libraries Project Website: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pocketsphinx Github Link: https://github.com/bambocher/pocketsphinx-python Description Python interface to CMU SphinxBase and PocketSphinx libraries created with SWIG. Pocketsphinx packages include python support, however, it is based on Automake and not … Continue reading

Open Source Text Processing Project: Sphinx4

Sphinx-4 Speech Recognition System Project Website: None Github Link: https://github.com/cmusphinx/sphinx4 Description 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 … Continue reading