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- bettermentflux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm most excited about the possibility of open source speech recognition. If people got behind it in force, it could be a killer app.
I've found a few links and articles on the subject but haven't had a chance to play with anything.
If you have info on the state of any of these or other speech recognition projects, add it in as a comment.
Sphinx from Carnegie Mellon University: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/compare.php
2004 article stating that IBM was releasing parts of ViaVoice: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=18420
VoxForge (collects user supplied Transcribed Speech Audio to improve acoustic models in Open Source Speech Recognition Engines):
http://www.voxforge.org/ - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Probably very far because Open Source faciliates collaboration, which benefits everyone. Only yesterday I spotted the following article.
OpenCourseWare: Open Source at MIT
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| The Chinese translations come from Chinese Open Resources for
| Education (CORE), a consortium of China's top universities that
| has translated 110 MIT courses into Simplified Chinese, and
| Opensource OpenCourseWare Prototype System (OOPS), a volunteer
| organization that has translated 25 courses into Traditional Chinese.
| OCW materials have been translated into other languages as well,
| including French, German, Thai, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Users
| can create their own translations provided they meet the permissions
| criteria of the Creative Commons license.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54319.html - millette, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Care to explain that to all the companies which have been investing in free software for the last 10 year, with most growing because the playing field is getting levelled?
Free Software and Free Market go hand in hand. - Daunting, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm really excited about this widespread open source movement. When was the last time we had a global push for collaborative technological advancement for the sake of philanthropy rather than money, and actually created better software in the process. It's the future folks.
I just wish there were more personal software that was being shovelled out by open source groups. Of course there's ftp, bittorrent, p2p, and a large array of other programs, but the overwhelming majority is for large infrastructures. Which I think is excellent, but if there was a mass public support for this movement, there might be a new renaissance in the developed world. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2All the really interesting development these days is in open source. This is exciting stuff...if you're a geek. ;)
Open source makes collaboration and projects that get passed along to the next class of students a lot easier. No messy NDA's or publication restrictions. I think this points up the Achilles Heel of proprietary software.
Open is better. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The article has some interesting links, I'm gonna read them when I'm home, thank you for posting them. Dugg!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1no mate, it does count... the article has open source initiatives from all over the world.
- Shrimp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2So, if it's not within the East and West coast borders of the United States... It just doesn't count...?
- ernest77, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Impressive! How far are we about to get on this technological cruise?
- Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I can think of a few more f-words to describe many open source projects.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"Open is better."
As long as you don't develop software for a living.
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