Thursday, March 5, 2015

Implementation of the Vocabulary

   During the last few weeks, Valerie and I have been working on implementing the vocabulary and grammar that was created last semester into Simon. I have a windows computer and it hasn’t been responding to the voice commands from the scenario that I downloaded which was “EN/H4W] Mouse”. We created a scenario of my own and my goal was to open an executable file, which in this case was a Python command line. We were able to create a command using the "Program" type and activate it manually by clicking on the Trigger button that is in the Grammar module, but we were not able to activate it by voice. Valerie and I tried to do the same thing in her Mac computer but had the same results as before.

   Another thing that happened these past few weeks is that Simon has been giving me the following error every time I activate it:

The recognition reported the following error:
Failed to setup recognition: Julius did not initialize correctly


After asking the KDE community what might be causing this error and how can I solve it through an email, they were able to point out that I was mixing a speech model ([EN/VF/JHTK] Voxforge) and a scenario (EN/H4W] Mouse) that had different phonemes. According to Peter, the person who respond my question, “the EN/H4W mouse scenario uses the H4W phoneme set, while the EN/VF base model uses the VF phoneme set”. Now I need to correct this mistake and use a scenario that matches the phoneme of the speech model. Valerie and I need to figure out how to activate the commands that we create and I need to do the necessary adjustments to correct the mistake I made by selecting a scenario with a matching  EN/VF phoneme.