Is it time to grow the volunteer base for voxforge?
From what I've read about the problem, what you need is lots of people to record their voice so you can produce acoustic models.
Now if you really need people why don't you try and team up with the WikiMedia Foundation, if you can get even a small amount of wiki people to help out you'd vastly increase your incoming audio.
That is of course if you do need more people. You may just be looking for more programmers with better ideas for the software and processing side of things.
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Hi doctormo,
>Is it time to grow the volunteer base for voxforge?
We are getting there...
>why don't you try and team up with the WikiMedia Foundation
Do you have a contact name the WikiMedia Foundation? Would it be better that you make the initial contact (i.e. do already have a relationship with them)?
>You may just be looking for more programmers with better ideas for the
>software and processing side of things.
We need both (people to submit speech and programmers). Though ideas are one thing, actually developing a solution that people will use is quite another (as evidenced by Edison's quote that invention requires 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration ... :) )
thanks,
Ken
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> Do you have a contact name the WikiMedia Foundation? Would it be better that you make the initial contact (i.e. do already have a relationship with them)?
Unfortunatlly not, I'm an ubuntu guy myself so if it was Mark Shuttleworth it'd be no problem. But the Wikimedia foundation can't be too hard to get a relationship with.
I post the idea because it may be worth considering, I consider the idea of recorded voices (and even the audio books) to be something wiki people would be into.
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