oreillyj@ul.ie (10/24/90)
Hi all, I'm currently working in the area of speech recognition using neural networks and would be grateful if anybody could help in relation to the following * does anybody know of any speech acquisition boards for PCs. We are currently using an existing database of sounds but wish to record and process our own. What we are looking for is something that will acquire, preprocess and digitize the speech signal as well as providing some means of feature extraction. * has anybody tried implementing neural networks using INMOS transputers? I haven't started getting into it and am wondering whether it is worth the effort. * are there many people out there working on neural network based speech recognition? if there is, I think there should really be another newgroup set up specifically for this subject. This last point is just an idea but help on the other two would be gratefully appreciated. E-mail to : oreillyj@ul.ie John O'Reilly, Neural Network Group, Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick. Phone : 353 - 61 - 333644 Fax : 353 - 61 - 330316
ajr@eng.cam.ac.uk (Tony Robinson) (10/25/90)
In article <9279.2724bc2c@ul.ie> oreillyj@ul.ie writes: >* has anybody tried implementing neural networks using INMOS transputers? > I haven't started getting into it and am wondering whether it is worth > the effort. I use an array of 64 transputers, each one gives me about 0.8 MFLOPS so you need a few of them to get anywhere, and then you have lots of fun dealing with the parallel programming problems. My opinion is that the T800 transputer technology is now outdated, but parallel machines are good for training artificial neural networks if you have the time and patience to do the parallel programming. >* are there many people out there working on neural network based speech > recognition? if there is, I think there should really be another > newgroup set up specifically for this subject. Speech recognition is one of the big application areas, however, I don't think that there is enough traffic for a comp.ai.neural-nets.speech. I made a tentative suggestion in comp.dsp and news.groups a while back about a comp.speech/comp.ai.speech newsgroup, which was to cover all aspects of speech processing (e.g. coding, synthesis and recognition). Only a few people replied so I gave up the idea. Maybe there is more interest from the comp.ai.neural-nets readership? Tony Robinson