Caligula

Wow it has been years since I saw generation5. It used to have the best ai learning materials and a good forum about eight years ago. The site seems to be down for me however.

I needed to build a audio corpus to train acoustic models on. It actually worked pretty good. I was able to build up about 100 hours worth. It was unbelievably tedious because I had to verify the audio even after I used amazon turk a second time to do a first verification pass.

The other thing is that I don't necessarily want perfect quality audio. I wanted whatever microphone audio normal people have so it probably worked out better that I used amazon turk.

Wow this is expensive. Over a dollar a word. "what time is it" costs 6$.

I actually looked into their other company, voice123 to do some audio corpus building for a speech recognition project but it was way cheaper(though painful) to just use amazon turk.

Who else reading this suspected Techcrunch fund was an investor in the company who made this app?

Its just that when Techcrunch fawns over a todo app, it makes me suspect something is up. I am sure nothing is, and its a great app, but Techcrunch is hard to take seriously.

They thanked him by the millions of dollars in licensing and fees paid. He certainly took the money he rightfully earned :)

Fairly obvious reasons.

-price,time,skills

They do not do it intentionally. It just is not worth it, or possible.

I am curious why Dropbox isnt in the case studies list. They seem to be the biggest success of note that is entirely built on s3.

Sigh. Another useless fucking article is #1 after 1 hour. It is the same tired discussion repeated ad nausea.

This is very sad. John was a brilliant man who always made himself available to not only his students but random people(myself) emailing him for research advice.

SRI is a great organization. They make the best language modeling tool srilm that is available to developers http://www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/

I am curious if, and what its role in SIRI was.?

Can you list some of the patterns you encountered?

One of the tremendous values of being in a masters program is having access to JSTOR and all the other journal sources.

Before I would email the professor and request a copy, usually they would oblige.

Flagging as spam, the full first page says requires silverlight. Most people won't even be able to view the article.

Not a big surprise. There are more opportunities for hi tech startups in the US. Also, health care is not as big an issue for young males.

There was an open source app that used sphinx to filter for the word twitter and mute it called twitterkiller. Shame it disappeared but it was listed at:

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/sphinxinaction

It mentions that they are sort of forcing bond holders to accept a lesser payment. That seems like a kind of default.

They are getting a huge amount of free press. I have read at least two other stories and seen it on tv. That, combined with customers who approve of the ban will significantly outweigh the losses from kids/young families.

I worked briefly at Nortel. It makes me sad reading these articles. Nortel was a great company that still could have been successful today were it not for terrible corrupt high level management.

Curious which ones and how?

I wonder if this is the tenacity of founders that pg speaks of.

This is wonderful news. I was planning to attend my first 'rally' on saturday to protest UBB. I was shocked at how even non techies cared so much about this issue.

I hope the monopolies(rogers&bell) don't try less subtle ways to achieve their goals.

I am curious, does your certification and testing involve anything with the FDA?

I worked at one of the big sleep companies before and we always had to adhere to FDA regulations even though we were careful to be 'monitoring' and not 'diagnosis/treatment'. The FDA also occasionally randomly popped in as a part of their standard monitoring process.

Same with me. I spent over 1k with a friend on turk, even reported blatant security issues to one of the PM's yet I was unable to sign up and had to get my American friend to do it.

I see no reason why they can't open it up to Canada. Terribly frustrating. Take my money!

But they went to America to pursue their startup. Their incorporation is in America and they live/operate in America.

They left Britain to pursue their startup. So I think your refutation is the opposite of what you intended it to be.

The image rotater on the front page goes way too fast. I was unable to read the text before it switched.

I have been debating fiddling wither win7 or android.

What is a good android phone to test/develop with? Is the nexus still the best choice?

What is a good developer win7 phone to test with?

Opensourcing the corpus would be more interesting but I suppose with their privacy policy this is a no go.

The legal ramifications will be interesting once it is released to the masses and not just a few partners.

Org's such as the UFC or NFL will hate this far more than they hate justin.tv/ustream.tv because it will make live streaming more mainstream for the masses.

I think this can't be more than a showcase for silverlight. I run linux and winxp so I cannot even try without the hassle of getting silverlight for xp.

Helps to have custom models. The free ones though are decent and a lot of recent sphinx improvements help.