I've recently started studying OpenEars speech recognition and it's great! But I also need to support speech recognition and dictation in other languages such as Russian, French and German.I've found that here are available various acoustic and language models.
But I cannot really understand - is that enough what I need to integrate extra language support in application?
Question is - what steps should I take in order to successfully integrate, for example russian, in Open Ears?
As far as I understood - all acoustic and language models for english language in Open Ears demo is located in folder hub4wsj_sc_8k . Same files can be found in voxforge language archives. So I just replaced them in demo. One thing is different - in demo English language, there also was a sendump 2MB large file, which is not located in voxforge language archives.There are two other files used in Open Ears demo:
OpenEars1.languagemodel
OpenEars1.dic
These I replaced with:
msu_ru_nsh.lm.dmp
msu_ru_nsh.dic
as .dmp is similar to .languagemodel. But application is crashing without any error.
What am I doing wrong? Thank You.
From my comments, reposted as an answer:
[....] Step 1 for issues like this is to turn on OpenEarsLogging and verbosePocketsphinx, which will give you very fine-grained info on what is going wrong (search your console output for the words error and warning to save time). Instructions on doing this can be found in the docs. Feel free to bring questions to the OpenEars forums [....]: http://politepix.com/forums/openears You might also want to check out this thread: http://politepix.com/forums/topic/other-languages
The solution:
To follow up for later readers, after turning on logging we got this working by using the mixture_weights file as a substitute for sendump and by making sure that the phonetic dictionary used the phonemes that were present in the acoustic model rather than the English-language phonemes.
The full discussion in which we accomplished this troubleshooting can be read here: http://www.politepix.com/forums/topic/using-russian-acoustic-model/
UPDATE: Since OpenEars 1.5 was released this week, it is possible to pass the path to any acoustic model as an argument to the main listening method, and there is a much more standardized method for packaging and referencing any acoustic model so you can have many acoustic models in the same app. The info in this forum post supersedes the info in the discussion I linked to in this answer: http://www.politepix.com/forums/topic/creating-an-acoustic-model-bundle-for-openears-1-5-and-up/ I left the rest of the answer for historical reasons and because there may be details in that discussion that are still useful, but it can be skipped in favor of the new link.
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With the introduction of DocC for generating documentation from source code, is it possible to take the output of DocC and use it as the source of truth for an Apple Help Book (for use inside of a macOS App)?
DocC Introduction: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10166/
Apple Help Book for Mac Apps: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ProvidingUserAssitAppleHelp/authoring_help/authoring_help_book.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000903-CH206-CIHEHEAC
Is it possible to take the output of DocC and use it as the source of truth for an Apple Help Book?
Yes, but likely not worth it.
#matt mentioned:
A DocC is a highly restricted, formalized representation of a very specific type of information.
However I disagree with it. You can create article pages with DocC: Getting Started with Sloths
The problems with using DocC to create Apple Help Book:
DocC documentation only support basic markdown syntax, so your formatting option is limited.
DocC exports the documentation as a single page web app, where Apple Help Book expect individual html files for each help pages. So you would need to automatically generate static html files.
DocC documentation doesn't let you add custom meta tags for indexing or keywords and name for anchors. (Maybe you can use comments in markdown, then automatically generate them from comments. However I'm not sure if comments in markdown would remain in DocC generated file)
You would still need to use Help Indexer to index them.
#matt mentioned:
A help book helps users, whereas DocC displays a programming API to a programmer.
You can definitely meld the two and use DocC generated files as your source of truth, but I would rather do it with other html editors, or a better markdown editor if you prefer the markdown syntax.
Probably not. They are completely different animals. A help book is a complete web site with some help for certain kinds of anchors. A DocC is a highly restricted, formalized representation of a very specific type of information. Indeed, even if you meld the two things, you would not want to; a help book helps users, whereas DocC displays a programming API to a programmer.
Just as an example, here is a help book I wrote:
http://www.apeth.com/sd5help/index.html
You couldn't possibly express that using DocC. If the problem is that you're looking for a tool to help you write help books, DocC is not it.
Can someone supply an example or a link to an example that signs an existing pdf using itextsharp 5.4.4? Ideally keeping pdf/a conformity of the pdf? Thank you.
Edit: I understand the question looks as if I did not use google etc. BUT, new versions of itextsharp contain completely rewritten code for signing as well as other functions, making the existing examples non-functional. Also, itextsharp started using different names for methods eg. instead of createSignature one has CreateSignature, instead of getSignatureAppearance one seems to have SignatureAppearance etc. making the port from java examples a real nightmare. Also the samples in the source code itself are in java not c#. There is really nowhere else I can go.
Please read http://itextpdf.com/book/digitalsignatures
The examples are in Java, but they were also ported to C#. You can find the C# examples here. I didn't vote your question down, but... the first place to go when you have a question about iText should probably be http://itextpdf.com
The book I refer to (I'm the author) as well as the new examples are on the learn page.
Here's the deal. We've got a bunch of test questions that have been exported from another system ... and they aren't in a SCORM compliant format.
Even if they were, we really need to get all of this data into a real learning content authoring tool.
The incumbent tool is Articulate, and as any search of the Articulate support site shows, there's no way to actually import a test question into Articulate.
Since we've got a lot of data that we'd prefer not to re-key, my question is, what's a good course authoring tool that can generate a SCORM 2004 assessment, and has a good import from flat file function for its question data?
Googling isn't really getting me too far.
Thanks!
SCORM is used to create SCOs (shareable content objects, aka 'lessons' or 'courses') which may optionally contain questions, but SCORM isn't a quiz/assessment framework. Because it isn't an assessment framework, there is no importer for turning an XML file into a SCORM assessment.
If you can't get Articulate to work for you, then you'll probably need to roll your own SCORM SCO and build a quiz system for it (with the ability to import your custom XML files). Ideally, each quiz question would be set up as an interaction (using cmi.interactions) in SCORM.
You may want to look at some open-source SCORM SCO building tools, such as eXe and Reload, though I'm not sure how helpful they'll be for you.
Sorry I don't know of any easier solutions.
EDIT:
BTW there's a workaround for importing XML into in Articulate: import the XML containing the questions into Quizmaker 2, then import your Quizmaker 2 presentation into Quizmaker '09. Not the easiest, but still easier than building your own SCO. See http://www.articulate.com/forums/articulate-quizmaker/3239-securing-quizmaker-xml-file.html
Disclaimer - I haven't worked with IMS-QTI personally, I just know of it.
You may want to take a look at IMS-QTI, and see if that format would work for you. IMS-QTI stands for IMS Question and Test Interoperability. There may be other formats, but IMS-QTI is the only one I'm aware of, and I'm sure there would be tools out there which support it.
That would change your search to finding a tool which supports IMS-QTI, and you may have better luck with that. :-)
There are some general examples of what kinds of questions it supports in the implementation guide.
Hope that helps!
I don't think Captivate or Articulate supports question import in any easy workflow. Your honest fastest route might be to author your own SCORM package format that will import questions from XML or JSON. Then write a converter to put your CSV content into XML or JSON. There are lots of SCORM API wrappers out there to use, and you'll have more control over any issues you find with LMS vs authorware interpretations of SCORM if you just build your own player.
This feature is now available in Claro:
http://feedback.dominknow.com/knowledgebase/articles/312552-how-do-i-import-test-questions-from-excel
The problem? I look up stuff in the xcode documentation and find very useful lists of objects, methods, etc... But then I still have to go somewhere else to find useful example code of how to use that object. For example, I looked up NSNumber yesterday and found all of the neat stuff it can do, but I still had no clue how to use it. That's just an example. I'm sure I could read the objective c pdf front to back and learn something there (which I plan on doing) but what about later? When I'm looking up some UIKit object? Do I have to go find a tutorial each time (or lately, I just ask StackOverflow and you guys take care of me).
Is there a part of the apple website / xcode documentation that shows the example code I'm looking for?
Is there a wiki site out there or something that has what I'm looking for? (I just tried a simple google search "iphone sdk wiki". this site could be good. iphone sdk wiki . I'll check it out. Anyone else have one they like? )
This is also sort of a mild complaint to Apple. Why not a section on each code definition page that shows usage?
I've found the sample code section on Apple's iPhone Developer Connection be extremely useful not only for samples of complete applications but also a best practices source. Going through the code of The Elements, for example, will expose you to how to use particular classes as well as how to structure your code. It is a wonderful example of how to create a non-trivial iPhone app.
Look in developer.apple.com/iphone they have pretty good documentation (you can use the search bar there) on all the classes and have a lot of good sample code..
I really would emphasize the "Related sample code" section on many, if not most, of the documented classes.
But, IMHO, there isn't any easy way of acquiring the knowledge to develop in Cocoa/Cocoa Touch. The API's are so numerous that it simply takes a lot of time and experience. You just have to work on it, look at a lot of books and study the sample source code where available.
I've tried to take a purposeful approach by carving out some time every week to learning a new API/class irrespective of whether my current project needs it or not.
Alternatively, search Joe Hewitt. He's the developer for iPhone facebook. He has a project you can download that demonstrates all the features of facebook. It's an awesome open source project!
When you look something up in Xcode Developer Documentation, you sometimes get a Related Sample Code: text that tells you what Sample the method or property is used in. Too bad you can't click on it to see the code, but if you do click it takes you to the page to download the sample. – mahboudz 0 secs ago
Apple Developer site has all kinds of code examples. Try searching google for a UICatalog project, it will show you all the basic UI stuff you can do, like adding buttons and progressbars through using only code.
When you visit en.wikipedia.org with an iPhone you are forwarded to en.m.wikipedia.org which is formatted beautifully for the device. I have MediaWiki on my own server and I'd love to have this formatting available when I visit my site with my iPhone. Is there an easy way to enable this? I've gotten as far as www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgHandheldForIPhone and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileSkin but nothing is jumping out at me.
I operate Wikiaudio and this is what I did:
Install and use this extension, to detect this skin (WP touch).
m.wikipedia.org is based on the wikimedia-mobile server, whose source code is available here:
http://github.com/hcatlin/wikimedia-mobile
It's a proxy of sorts that gets pages from Wikipedia, shuffles the contents and then serves them out formatted for mobiles, with caching to speed up things. It's written in Ruby and seems to be fairly customized for Wikipedia and the Monobook skin.
Wikipedia uses MobileFrontend.
You posted a link with complete instructions on how to deploy this into your installation of MediaWiki...
-t
I don't believe it's a skin that's on general release yet and was developed specifically for Wikipedia.