Open Speech Initiative

[Peter Bouda]

Hi,

I read the blog post of Peter Grasch about the Open Speech Initiative 
and wanted to hereby state my interest in supporting this iniative... I 
think it's a great idea!

Maybe first some words about myself: I currently work in research 
projects in Portugal and Germany, my research topics are from language 
documentation and quantitative language comparison. I stay in Portugal 
most of the time, because I like warm places :-) I focus on open source 
software development to support data management and analysis, here is a 
list of the packages I currently work on:

http://media.cidles.eu/poio/

Before that I worked for a company in Germany that develops speech 
recognition, TTS and machine translation. I developed and managed the 
solutions on mobile plattforms and the (speech) command and control of 
applications on Windows; and I was responsible for the evaluation of our 
SR products in comparison to our competitors. I am very interested in 
data management for language technology products and the design of user 
interfaces of SR/TTS products (graphical or speech, desktop and mobile). 
I don't know all the details and internals of SR or TTS; i.e. I know 
more or less how the different parts work and are connected but never 
implemented anything that processes audio data. I am also very 
interested in making SR available in a lot of languages; I know this is 
far away, but I dream of speech input/output for whatever language a 
person speaks (I would especially be interested in support for Bavarian 
and Minderico, for example...).

Are there any topics that you already started to discuss/work on already 
in this group? Let me know how I could help, e.g. write documentation or 
start a website for the initiative.

Best,
Peter

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Peter Bouda
Centro Interdisciplinar de Documentação Linguística e Social
http://www.cidles.eu/

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