| Automatic speech recognizer claims 98% accuracy |
Oct. 18, 2006
Fonix Speech Inc. has updated its automatic speech recognition (ASR) software. The company claims that VoiceIn SE 4.1, which supports Windows CE, Windows Mobile, and Windows XP/XPe, among other OSes, boosts recognition by 24 percent, to accuracy rates as high as 98 percent.
According to Fonix, one of version 4.1's main enhancements is improved recognition rates in "noise-saturated" environments. Additionally, the release adds a new speech-analysis module that enables the development of applications that provide feedback to end users, to help them improve their pronunciation of foreign words and phrases.
The new speech-analysis module "utilizes significantly more phonetic, linguistic and prosodic information about the speech signal, [in order to enable] end users learning to speak foreign languages to practice proper pronunciation," Fonix said. The new technology is available for all VoiceIn-supported languages (listed below).
VoiceIn 4.1 also adds Java support on Windows CE, the company said.
In addition to its use in PDAs and mobile phones, VoiceIn targets applications such as handheld electronic dictionaries, medical devices, industrial data collection and inventory applications, multimedia players, automotive telematics systems, the company says.
Fonix VoiceIn 4.1 supports Win32, Windows CE, and Windows Mobile, QNX, Linux, and Symbian. Supported processor architectures include ARM, XScale, Freescale i.MXL, TI OMAP, Renesas SH3/SH4, MIPS, PowerPC, and others. Additionally, the software is available in numerous languages, including U.S. and U.K. English, Canadian and European French, Castilian and Latin American Spanish, German, Japanese, Swedish, Italian, and Korean.
Availability
VoiceIn 4.1 is shipping now, direct from the company. Pricing was not disclosed.
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