TalkingJava SDK

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TalkingJava SDK

• Chantel Bowie
• Intro 2 Research

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TalkingJava SDK

• Cloud Garden
• Full implementation of Suns Java Speech API
• Java classes, object, methods
• Examples, documentation, packages
• Text-to-speech
• Speech Recognition

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Speech Engines

• Microsoft Speech API
• Speech Recognition (SR) engine
• Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine Speech Synthesis
  (SS)
• Lernout Hauspie (LH) TTS Engine
• UK English, French, German, Spanish, Russian,
  Dutch, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese
• Toshiba
• SR/SS

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Features

• Support
• Large range of speech engines
• Full implementation
• Sun JSAPI
• GUI
• Voice/profile selection
• Synthesis/Recognition
• Mouth

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Features

• Audio redirection
• Send/Receive audio
• Recognition confidence feedback
• Lip-sync events
• Mouth shape to mimic talking
• Applets and plugins

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User Interfaces
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User Interfaces
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My Use

• Java Speech Grammar Format
• Standard to recognize/synthesize speech
• Incorporated into example already made
• Examples
• Java Classes
• JSAPI
• Grammars
• Text files, audio

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Examples

• Speech Recognition
• LoadJSGF
• Smart Room
• Speech Synthesis
• What time is it?
• What day is it?
• Text-to-Speech
• Voice Pad

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References

• TalkingJava SDK with Java Speech API