Speech Recognition and Generation on Roboard
by paloskar on Jan.19, 2011, under Speech
The new Roboard single board computer provided enough processing power for implementing higher level cognitive functions on my robot. One of these functions is speech. Since I installed Windows XP on the Roboard and used Microsoft Visual Studio for code development, I also started using Windows’ own Speech API (SAPI) for speech recognition and generation. As input device I use the well amplified microphone on the Minoru 3D stereoscopic vision system. As output device I use a regular non-amplified speaker. Speech recognition works quite well almost out of the box, when the recognition grammar is limited to a number of phrases. This setup is very adequate to my current needs.
