Re: Speaker verification prototype ready

[Heeten <azari geo yahoo com>]

Ok, just curious, do we need overflow to get the
source code and compile this?  Or can we just get the
source overflow generates and use this?  (I'm not
really familuar with how overflow works)

Heeten

> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:38:35 -0400
> From: Jean-Marc Valin <>
> Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke
> To: Gnome Devel List <gnome-devel-list gnome org>
> Subject: Speaker verification prototype ready
> 
> This is a follow-up for speaker verfication in gdm
> that was discussed a while
> ago. I have just put a (static) binary release of my
> speaker verification
> software here:
>
ftp://freespeech.sourceforge.net/pub/freespeech/static_SV.tgz
> 
> The tarball contains the following files:
> sv_sound  : The statically-linked linux/x86
> executable
> si.gmm    : A speaker-independent voice model
> jm.gmm    : The speaker-dependent model for my
> (Jean-Marc) own voice
> 
> To test it, all you have to do is:
> % sv_sound jm.gmm
>  and then speak (for a couple seconds) in the
> microphone. The recording will
> stop after one second of silence. The result will
> then be printed. (note that
> "si.gmm" needs to be in the current directory)
> 
> You will get something like 
> <Float 3.50685 >
> The number represents the likeliness of your voice
> being that represented my the
> model in argument (in this case, my voice). Usually
> a number above 10 means that
> the model matches the voice, while below 10 it
> doesn't match. Of course it's not
> perfect, but I hope to improve accuracy over time.
> 
> I did not provide source code at this time because
> it is automatically generated
> with the Overflow
> (http://freespeech.sourceforge.net/overflow.html)
> environment.
> You can download both Overflow and the XML file used
> to generate the code from
>
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=590
> 
> I'm currently working on two (rather easy)
> improvements:
> 
> 1) Building as a library so it can be linked from a
> program (like gdm)
> 2) Having speaker *Identification*, that is you
> speak and the system (gdm, kdm)
> logs in the right person without needing to enter
> your login.
> 
> For those who (of course) would like to train their
> own voice model, you can do
> that in two ways:
> 1) Get the "Overflow" and "Open Mind Speech"
> packages and read the instructions
> 2) record your voice at 16kHz/16bit/mono, upload it
> to the omspeech.dyndns.org
> ftp site (go to incoming/<language>) and e-mail me
> the name of your file. I will
> e-mail you back a .gmm model of your voice.
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> 	Jean-Marc
> 
> P.S. The code you can download is a bit older that
> what I'm releasing now, the
> newer stuff is only in CVS.

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