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Re: Show HN: JuliusJS – Speech recognition in JavaScript

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Post by zzmp »

cjbprime wrote: post #3
zzmp wrote: post #2

Creator 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?

No, but I think it's a great idea. If you end up using JuliusJS for this, please let me know. I still need to make some example applications to showcase what JuliusJS can do - I'll have them listed in the README when they're done.

I also came across PocketSphinx, which has been around a little longer - that may have some users in the wild already, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was used for navigation somewhere.

[PocketSphinx] https://github.com/syl22-00/pocketsphinx.js/

Re: Show HN: JuliusJS – Speech recognition in JavaScript

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Post by cjbprime »

zzmp wrote: post #4
cjbprime wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice, thanks for doing this! Are you aware of any sites using speech rec for e.g. page navigation?

No, but I think it's a great idea. If you end up using JuliusJS for this, please let me know. I still need to make some example applications to showcase what JuliusJS can do - I'll have them listed in the README when they're done. I also came across PocketSphinx, which has been around a little longer - that may have some users in the wild already, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was used for navigation somewhere. […

Sounds good, thanks! Also, I think you'd get more interest here if there were a simple demo page that people could click through to -- that's the nice thing about JS, after all. Maybe something hosted on a github.io page that just transcribes into a textarea?

Re: Show HN: JuliusJS – Speech recognition in JavaScript

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Post by zzmp »

jergason wrote: post #6

I've played with pocketsphinx.js a fair amount, but this looks WAAAAAAAAAY easier to set up and consume. Nice work.

pocketsphinx.js looks amazing, but there's definitely a barrier to entry if you've never worked with speech recognition before. That was my biggest goal in porting this tool - a nice, abstracted API. Glad you like it :)

Re: Show HN: JuliusJS – Speech recognition in JavaScript

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Post by WhitneyLand »

cjbprime wrote: post #5
zzmp wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, but I think it's a great idea. If you end up using JuliusJS for this, please let me know. I still need to make some example applications to showcase what JuliusJS can do - I'll have them listed in the README when they're done. I also came across PocketSphinx, which has been around a little longer - that may have some users in the wild already, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was used for navigation somewhere. […

Sounds good, thanks! Also, I think you'd get more interest here if there were a simple demo page that people could click through to -- that's the nice thing about JS, after all. Maybe something hosted on a github.io page that just transcribes into a textarea?

Yes, don't worry too much about fancy samples textarea would still be great. Nice work.

Re: Show HN: JuliusJS – Speech recognition in JavaScript

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Post by Raphmedia »

zzmp wrote: post #4
cjbprime wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice, thanks for doing this! Are you aware of any sites using speech rec for e.g. page navigation?

No, but I think it's a great idea. If you end up using JuliusJS for this, please let me know. I still need to make some example applications to showcase what JuliusJS can do - I'll have them listed in the README when they're done. I also came across PocketSphinx, which has been around a little longer - that may have some users in the wild already, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was used for navigation somewhere. […

This is the ultimate accessibility. Imagine a blind person speaking to the website and having the website talk back.
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