Is there online demo anywhere on the web?
I'll try to whip one up today and post it to the README.
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#13Creator here - I ported this over from the open-source Julius using emscripten. AMA
Hi! Just curious on general emscripten work - how long does it take to port something like this? What are the main hurdles, and things that you can get stuck on?
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#14Thanks for sharing, nice work!
Quick question the Julius website says there is no English acoustic model available [1], how did you solve this? Do you provide a default acoustic model?
[1] http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en_index.php?q=en_grammar.html
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#15Creator here - I ported this over from the open-source Julius using emscripten. AMA
Nice, thanks for doing this! Are you aware of any sites using speech rec for e.g. page navigation?
The PIA Chrome extension enables you to open and manage some sites with speech. It was done at a hackathon using wit.ai
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#16This is the kind of technological challenge which must be fun to complete. And it must be quite satisfying for the author.
However, whenever I see a 'XYZ in pure javascript', I keep getting the impression we are only delaying the inevitable moment browsers have to step to a superior language. Kinda like instead of quickly ripping off a bandaid is better than slooowwwwllly removing it ....
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#17This is the kind of technological challenge which must be fun to complete. And it must be quite satisfying for the author. However, whenever I see a 'XYZ in pure javascript', I keep getting the impression we are only delaying the inevitable moment browsers have to step to a superior language. Kinda like instead of quickly ripping off a bandaid is better than slooowwwwllly removing it ....
Seeing cool things written in JavaScript makes you think that JavaScript is doomed?
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#18Great work, this will be another cool library i star on GitHub and never do anything about it :/
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#19Thanks for sharing, nice work! Quick question the Julius website says there is no English acoustic model available [1], how did you solve this? Do you provide a default acoustic model? [1] http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en_index.php?q=en_grammar.html
I used voxforge[1], a project made specifically to solve this problem:
> VoxForge was set up to collect transcribed speech for use with Free and Open Source Speech Recognition Engines (on Linux, Windows and Mac).
VoxForge's sample grammar is provided as a default, in its own folder [2]. It would be nice to get a high-quality acoustic model, as voxforge's is not that comprehensive yet, but I couldn't find anything with the right licensing and zero cost. If anyone knows of one, I'd love to hear about it.
[1] http://www.voxforge.org/ [2] https://github.com/zzmp/juliusjs/tree/master/dist/voxforge
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#20Pretty cool! When I did my project I had to use https://github.com/kn/speak.js which is an amazing library. The library still works on Firefox 30, 31 by the time I finished my project (and the project itself hasn't change much for a year or two!).
I would definitely give this JuliusJS library a try. I am actually amazed that JuliusJS doesn't carry all the heavy data like speak.js does (multiple languages support though). I love the fact that you state 100% client side!