Speech Software
MobileRobots offers three libraries that add speech recognition and synthesis capabilities to ARIA:
ArSpeechRec_Sphinx is an easy-to-use wrapper for the open-source Sphinx2 speech recoginition system (developed by Carnegie Melon University and others). Sphinx2 is able to recognize words and phrases from a prebuilt list with no training required. ArSpeechRec_Sphinx is available to all MobileRobots customers at no additional cost.
ArSpeechSynth_Cepstral performs high quality speech synthesis (text-to-speech) using the Cepstral synthesizer. Two voices are included (additional voices may be purchased). ArSpeechSynth_Cepstral is available for purchase as an optional add on, and is also included as part of the optional Audio and Speech Package.
ArSpeechSynth_Festival is an easy-to-use wrapper for the open-source Festival speech synthesis system (developed by the University of Edinburgh and others). Voice quality is not as high as Cepstral, but Festival is free open source software and the ArSpeechSynth_Festival wrapper is available to all MobileRobots customers at no additional cost.
All libraries are available for Linux/GCC and Windows/MS Visual C++.
The speech synthesis libraries are designed to work with the sound classes provided with ARIA. Example programs and full API reference documentation are included.
See Also
ARIA Audio And Speech Package