JuliusJS
AI
speech recognition
SHOW HN2014
202points
52comments
#99of 2,272 in 2014
Top 5%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
13 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.39.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Much easier to set up and use than pocketsphinx.js
From 2 comments
I've played with pocketsphinx.js a fair amount, but this looks WAAAAAAAAAY easier to set up and consume. Nice work.
jergason on HNThis is absolutely amazing, great work. This will open up a whole new world of possibilities. In my time using offline speech-recognition tech, I never was able to use julius…
hardwaresofton on HN
Runs fully client-side with no server needed
From 2 comments
Pretty cool! When I did my project I had to use https://github.com/kn/speak.js which is an amazing library. The library still works on Firefox 30, 31 by the time I finished my…
yeukhon on HNRight, it's all done on the client, so it is server agnostic.
zzmp on HN
Brings Julius into usable territory
From 1 comment
This is absolutely amazing, great work. This will open up a whole new world of possibilities. In my time using offline speech-recognition tech, I never was able to use julius…
hardwaresofton on HN
Objections
Demo vocabulary is too limited and misrecognizes words
From 2 comments
Genuinely not sure if the demo is a joke or not. I said "hello" it said "DIAL OH OH". I said "Apple" it said "GET KENT". WTF?
borplk on HNIn order to get a more comprehensive vocabulary/grammar, you need to substitute out the sample that it comes with. There are instructions in the README. For the demo, it just…
zzmp on HN
Browsers should adopt a better language instead of JavaScript
From 2 comments
This is the kind of technological challenge which must be fun to complete. And it must be quite satisfying for the author. However, whenever I see a 'XYZ in pure javascript', I…
kelvin0 on HNMy point exactly. The end result being we are solidly entrenching Javascript into browsers, not the contrary. So instead of starting with a proper hammer for nails, we are slowly…
kelvin0 on HN
Requests
Simple demo page
From 2 comments
Is there online demo anywhere on the web?
Gonzih on HNSounds good, thanks! Also, I think you'd get more interest here if there were a simple demo page that people could click through to -- that's the nice thing about JS, after all.…
cjbprime on HN
Confidence scores
From 1 comment
Nice work. Can it return confidence scores? Say I want to load 3 commands in my page: 1. Click blue button 2. Scroll down in the yellow text area 3. Expand image of man I feed…
bubee on HN
Better English acoustic model
From 2 comments
Thanks for sharing, nice work! Quick question the Julius website says there is no English acoustic model available [1], how did you solve this? Do you provide a default acoustic…
ar7hur on HNI used voxforge[1], a project made specifically to solve this problem: > VoxForge was set up to collect transcribed speech for use with Free and Open Source Speech Recognition…
zzmp on HN
Questions
Does it need a Node.js backend?
From 1 comment
Does your application need a nodejs backend for this library to work?
cue232s on HN
Can CMUSphinx language models be used?
From 1 comment
Can you use any of the CMUSphinx compatible language models with this, or is there a tool to convert them to something Julius supports?
sunsu on HN
Alternatives named
pocketsphinx.js
From 2 comments
No, but I think it's a great idea. If you end up using JuliusJS for this, please let me know. I still need to make some example applications to showcase what JuliusJS can do -…
zzmp on HNI've played with pocketsphinx.js a fair amount, but this looks WAAAAAAAAAY easier to set up and consume. Nice work.
jergason on HN
Annyang (wraps HTML5 speech API)
From 2 comments
This is sweet...to get an idea of how much fun this could be for web apps, check out the Annyang library (https://www.talater.com/annyang/), which wraps around the Google Web…
danso on HNStrictly speaking, Annyang wraps the HTML5 speech recognition API, not Google's specifically.
_pius on HN
Chrome speech recognition API
From 1 comment
I'm using Chrome's speech recognition engine for a virtual reality in WebGL thing I'm building. It's a bit annoying, as it requires a network connection, and is rather buggy (I…
moron4hire on HN