{"id":118,"date":"2017-01-24T02:26:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T02:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/?p=118"},"modified":"2017-03-02T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T17:11:49","slug":"mycroft-ai-and-understanding-what-the-user-is-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/2017\/01\/24\/mycroft-ai-and-understanding-what-the-user-is-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"MyCroft, AI, and how I&#8217;m trying to help it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I saw that a version of <a href=\"https:\/\/mycroft.ai\/mycroft-now-available-raspberry-pi-image\/\">MyCroft was released for the Raspberry Pi<\/a>.\u00a0 I have been following MyCroft for a while now (mostly through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jupiterbroadcasting.com\/\">Linux Action Show<\/a>) and have tried using it.\u00a0 The software is still in beta, so I found some bugs with it, namely I can&#8217;t really use it.\u00a0 I have tried pairing it, then talking into it with my microphone.\u00a0 But it can&#8217;t understand what I&#8217;m saying.\u00a0 At first, I thought it had something to do with getting a secure connection to the MyCroft backend servers.\u00a0 Now it could be a problem with my microphone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit that my desktop microphone isn&#8217;t the best.\u00a0 But how much clarity does the microphone require?\u00a0 Apparently, a lot.\u00a0 The microphones on the Amazon Echo, for instance, can pick up a bunch of channels of sound.\u00a0 So it looks like I&#8217;m going to have to get a better microphone.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve also seen is that MyCroft uses Google&#8217;s backend for the speech recognition.\u00a0 It looks like they&#8217;ll go to something such as <a href=\"http:\/\/kaldi-asr.org\/\">Kaldi<\/a>, but that doesn&#8217;t have a large enough speech model to get the job done.\u00a0 While it has a model based upon over a thousand hours of speech, it may require thousands of more hours of speech just to get better results.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been donating to <a href=\"http:\/\/voxforge.org\/\">Voxforge<\/a> and trying to help with their speech corpus.\u00a0 However, they&#8217;ve barely got enough for <em>half<\/em> of their first release.\u00a0 So I was wondering how to speed things up and get them more samples.<\/p>\n<p>What they could do is make it fun and interesting to donate.\u00a0 I was thinking of something like a badge system on the Voxforge website, or even leaderboards.\u00a0 Then again, would this make it fun to donate?\u00a0 I need to think more on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I saw that a version of MyCroft was released for the Raspberry Pi.\u00a0 I have been following MyCroft for a while now (mostly through the Linux Action Show) and have tried using it.\u00a0 The software is still in beta, so I found some bugs with it, namely I can&#8217;t really use it.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[58,59,56,49,57],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-information-technology","tag-kaldi","tag-linux-action-show","tag-mycroft","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-speech-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}