Comment Re:Research is underway... (Score 1) 322
From your post I don't see anything particular new about this. Voice recognition has been done based on phonems for a long time. I did research on it 12 years ago.
The problem is that most of use do not pronouce ever phoneme in ever word and we certainly don't
hear every single one. Our brains take what does get across and fill in the rest.
Take a common phrase like
"did you eat?"
Which me and my friends said about every day as
we met after work or school. "did" has 3 phonemes.
but a lot of poeple skip the last "d" sound.
We shorted it almost "di gi eat" (notice how
different the "you" becomes)
Also some phonemes are very similar like m and n. Although these sound are produced very differently
m is by the lips and n with the tounge. But someone says monday you can distinguish m and n
because there is no such word as nomday. So even
with phoneme recoginition you still have to do word based matching and even sentence based matching to get high rates.
Another problem with phoneme is that the sounds are changed based on what phonemes some directly before and directly after. Doing speach therapy is hard because it very to demonstrate some sounds without adding a second phoneme. Most
people unconsciencely but an "a" sound after
a "p" sound when they try to show a child how
to say "p", which gets confused with "b". This
is hard for recoginition because the "p" in
"pa" is slightly different then the "p" in "pi".
The problem is that most of use do not pronouce ever phoneme in ever word and we certainly don't
hear every single one. Our brains take what does get across and fill in the rest.
Take a common phrase like
"did you eat?"
Which me and my friends said about every day as
we met after work or school. "did" has 3 phonemes.
but a lot of poeple skip the last "d" sound.
We shorted it almost "di gi eat" (notice how
different the "you" becomes)
Also some phonemes are very similar like m and n. Although these sound are produced very differently
m is by the lips and n with the tounge. But someone says monday you can distinguish m and n
because there is no such word as nomday. So even
with phoneme recoginition you still have to do word based matching and even sentence based matching to get high rates.
Another problem with phoneme is that the sounds are changed based on what phonemes some directly before and directly after. Doing speach therapy is hard because it very to demonstrate some sounds without adding a second phoneme. Most
people unconsciencely but an "a" sound after
a "p" sound when they try to show a child how
to say "p", which gets confused with "b". This
is hard for recoginition because the "p" in
"pa" is slightly different then the "p" in "pi".
