shouse/android-continuous-voice

Part of my master thesis 2014

#android-continuous-voice

Part of my master thesis in winter term 2014/2015: "Continuous voice recognition on mobile devices"

  Marius Fink

  Universität Hamburg 
  in Hamburg, Germany
  MIN-Faculty - Department of Informatics
  Distributed Systems and Information Systems (VSIS)

##Changelog

###Okt 20.

• new UI with only one but choosable recognizer
• silence notification in visualizer (perfect for automatic audio file splitting)
• Google Speech API recognition service
• fixed some visualizer bugs

###Okt 14.

• Removed PocketSphinx
• Framework for HTTP web service recognizer implementations (for the coming soon: Google Speech To Text API v2 Recognition Service)
• Audio Recorder that creates continuously small files with minimal downtime
• Amplitude visualizer
• Enhanced Design

###Sep 24.

• implement basic PocketSphinx Service with (Voxforge german language model)[http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/files/Acoustic%20and%20Language%20Models/]
• now simultaneous voice recognition is possible (but the PocketSphinx recognition quality is very low at the moment)
• share functionality

###Sep 22.

• Whole new working UI with split screen for Android and Pocket Sphinx (Dummy Implementation)
• Working Google Continuous Speech Recognition
• No beeping sounds for Google Speech Recognition

##Features (planned for final version)

• simultaneously transcript spoken language with help of multiple voice recognition services
• find similarities and resemblances in transcripts
• share (export) results
• use either Android Built-In Voice recognition or Pocket Sphinx or both
• completely decoupled services - easily use them in other applications (publication as library projects)
• licensed under BSD-3 license due to PocketSphinx restrictions

##Setup

• clone this project
• open with Android IDE (Eclipse)
• You also need to have Eclipse Java development tools plugin installed, if you are using stock ADT from eclipse, go to Help→Install New Software. Select Eclipse Repository and install from Programming Languages section “Eclipse Java Development Tools”. (from: PocketSphinx Tutorial for Android)
• move and rename the /keys.template to /res/values/keys.xml and set your API keys there
• build/compile with Android v16
• launch