Java for Data Science

Summary

In this chapter, we demonstrated many techniques for processing speech and images. This capability is becoming important, as electronic devices are increasingly embracing these communication mediums.

TTS was demonstrated using FreeTSS. This technique allows a computer to present results as speech as opposed to text. We learned how we can control the attributes of the voice used, such as its gender and age.

Recognizing speech is useful and helps bridge the human-computer interface gap. We demonstrated how CMUSphinx is used to recognize human speech. As there is often more than one way speech can be interpreted, we learned how the API can return various options. We also demonstrated how individual words are extracted, along with the relative ...