RJ Auburn - One Step Beyond

In case you have not seen these before I wanted to add some links to some cool Java Speech systems that are currently in development.

FreeTTS is an opensource JSAPI based TTS engine that is moving along well. Performance is not too bad and the audio quality should be ok if you develop a proper voice package.

Sphinx-4 is a Java port of the Sphinx ASR engine. Performance is inline with the C++ version and Sun has a few engineers working on the project full time.

If you are developing java based speech systems they are definitely worth a look.

I was reading the Duke Speaks! blog today and saw that there is going to be a session at JavaOne on VoiceXML and CCXML applications. I wont be attending but if you are be sure to check it out!

I came across a link to this cool use of pen based input that may have some interesting applications in the multi-model space. Pick-and-Drop is a concept where you are able to more or less do Drag-And-Drop between computers with a pen and it would behind the scenes being transfered between the computers. Still very much in a research state right now but it could be very interesting to see if anyone can bring something like this to market. There is also an article from the BBC on this technology.