Acoustic Validation Manager

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Manage group of engineers responsible for validation of acoustic,
speech, and audio performance of iPhone and iPod products. Establish
internal test processes and test plans. Develop, maintain and manage...

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Dear Everybody,

Please kindly help me in a problem that I am trying to understand
here.

My research problem that I have to solve is:

I have a sequence of million elements[1:1000000]. This can be
typically anything of randomly varying elements...[Although Usually I
will be considering Interarrival times of packets in a network stream,
so there will be many repititions inside it.

My objective:

What I want is that with this sequence of events, I want to estimate a
hidden Markov Model.

I think in my opinion estimating a hidden Markov Model means, that I
am estimating how many states are there in the model, what is the
state transition matrix although I am not really sure how much I have
to worry about
I have been trying to use matlab to my favour to solve these problems.

Now I have been trying to use Matlab help solve my problem.

I began by looking the following command and also its relatives.

[TR, E] = HMMESTIMATE(SEQ,STATES)

Several years ago i came across an article (could have been in 1 of
dozens) describing the re-creation or generation of any voice based on
a limited sample of that voice. The article specifically refers to the
abstract of the relevant patent.
I tried searching the uspto and several search engines but the terms
used were so generic (i.e. not very technical or distinguishing) that
the results of searches are overwhelming. I believe the news may have
been the basis of a storyline in the second season (2002) of the tv
show '24'. (storyline: a caltech grad is able to synthesize a
conversation among 3 people based on samples of their voices. )
Any help in finding a relevant article or the actual patent number
would be terrific.
tia

Hello

I'm trying to develop the G.722 standard. I have a problem with this
because I'm my implementation the outputs of the encoder saturate
always. Can someone help me?

Thanks

Dear all,

We are please to inform you the release of our software

The HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (HTS)
version 2.1 release June 27, 2008

for HMM-based speech synthesis. We apologize if you receive
multiple copies. Please check

http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/

A brief explanation of this software is attached bellow.

We would appreciate it if you would distribute this email to
anyone who would be interested in this software.

http://www.repository.voxforge1.org/downloads/SpeechCorpus/Trunk/Lexicon/VoxForge...
is a derivative of CMU Dict v.6 - I want to incorporate cmudict.0.7a.

I am not 100%% sure how I am going to do that. I am not 100%% sure what all the
v.6 derivation process is, but my instinct says I am just going to merge the v.7
with the VoxForgeDict, and maybe look for 'corrections' between v.6 and .7 and
try to back out anything that smells like bad data.

Whatever I do, I would like to start with some code to parse the cmudict.0.7a.
I have yet to find a definitive spec on it's format - either in english or some
program code.

I can understand that maybe it doesn't exist. If this is the case, who has the
'authority' to make that call, and to designate a 'location' for a spec to be
developed: pile up all the things existing code relies on, and once the dust
settles, bless it the current spec.

and regardless of who/where, I know there are at least 3 things that need to be
consolidated, so if anyone has any more, add them to this thread.

1. http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/prot-docs/HTKBook/node174_mn.html
WORD [ '['OUTSYM']' ] [PRONPROB] P1 P2 P3 P4 ....

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary
subsequent entries are followed by an index in parentheses.

Hi all,

Today I released version 0.6 of JVoiceXML.

JVoiceXML is an implementation of VoiceXML 2.1, the Voice Extensible
Markup Language, specified at http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-voicexml21-20050613/
as an extension to VoiceXML 2.0, specified at http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20/.
VoiceXML is designed for creating audio dialogs that feature
synthesized speech, digitized audio, recognition of spoken and DTMF
key input, recording of spoken input, telephony, and mixed initiative
conversations. Major goal is to have a platform independent
implementation that can be used for free.

Changes since release 0.5.5:
general
- preparation for jsapi 2.0
- added initial support for multi document applications
- started SIP support
- turning back to log4j as the underlying logging framework
- sessions are now closed via a hangup (opposite to call)

Hello,

For a university project I am trying to write a program that will turn
vocal commands into MIDI events. For example if the user says A, a
note "A" will be played.

I am trying to write this program in C++ using the Microsoft Speech
SDK 5.1. I have written a library that drives the MIDI aspect, and am
able to write all the playback aspect. I have yet to find a way of
limiting the vocabulary to recognise specific commands. For example
letter names, flat/sharp/natural/ etc.

I would be grateful for help in limiting the window's vocabulary. Or
suggesting another way to create this program. I am happy to scrap
using the SDK as at the moment this is project is still in the
research stage.

Thank you.