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DynaSpeak® Speech Recognition Engine

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DynaSpeak is a small-footprint, high-accuracy, speaker-independent speech recognition engine. It scales from embedded to large-scale system use in industrial, consumer, and military products and systems. The technology is available for license from SRI.

The speech engine incorporates SRI-developed, patented techniques that increase recognition performance using speaker adaptation, microphone adaptation, end of speech detection, distributed speech recognition, and noise robustness.dnaspeak logo

DynaSpeak is a product of SRI’s Speech Technology and Research Laboratory, a world leader in speech technology research and development.

 

 

Key Features

  • Small footprint (750KB–2MB); enables compact deployment
  • Statistical grammar option for natural language and domain-specific dictation
  • Adaption to background noise
  • Compact grammars for fast updates
  • Speaker adaption improves recognition with each new utterance
  • Non-native speech models for robustness to strong accents
  • Supports very large vocabulary (50,000+ words)

Specifications

Minimum processor requirements

  • 200 MHz StrongArm
  • 66 MHz Intel x86
  • Support for other hardware available on request

Minimum memory requirements (KBs)

  • Total: 750

  • Executable (ROM): 350

  • Acoustic models (ROM): 100
  • Active mearch (RAM): 300 or greater for highly complex grammars

Supported languages


  • Adults: American and British English, Latin American Spanish, Iraqi Arabic, Pashto, and Dari (others on request)
  • Children: American English
  • Grammars: Statistical or JSGF forms; static or dynamic; dictation option

Software environments

  • Operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android (others on request)
  • Development: C/C++, Java (via JNI), client/server versions available