Visual and audio analysis

In Chapter 10, Visual and Audio Analysis, we demonstrate several Java techniques for processing sounds and images. We begin by demonstrating techniques for sound processing, including speech recognition and text-to-speech APIs. Specifically, we will use the FreeTTS (http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php) API to convert text to speech. We also include a demonstration of the CMU Sphinx toolkit for speech recognition.

The Java Speech API (JSAPI) (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index-140170.html) supports speech technology. This API, created by third-party vendors, supports speech recognition and speech synthesizers. FreeTTS and Festival (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/) are examples of vendors ...

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