Hi lezer,

thanks for the Submission!

Ken 

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Hoi Anna,

Wow, thanks for your contributions! We can definitely put them to good use.

As Ken already mentioned, it will take awhile before we can actually digest your recordings. At this moment  the Dutch part of VoxForge is still in a very early stage of development. We will first need some basic speech recognition before we can segment audio books semi-automatically (this is necessary to incorporate audio books into acoustic models).

So in the beginning we start with segmented texts, but once we have some hours of that, audio books can help improve the model drastically. At that point we'll also address the problem of archaic expressions and spelling, perhaps partly by spellchecking 'Majoor Frans' partly by adding archaic words to the dictionary and partly by skipping sentences that are simply too 1870's too be useful.

I've listened to one of the recordings and the quality seems outstanding! Very funny too.

Dank je!
Robin

--- (Edited on 9/9/2007 5:09 pm [GMT-0500] by Robin) ---

Hallo Robin,

Sounds like you've started on a major undertaking!

About the archaic language: I think there will be sentences enough that could pass for modern, but it must be a lot of work to cut them out etc. So I can understand that the files won't be of much use to you at the moment, and I won't flood your system with all my files :)

When you reach the stage of being able to use audiobooks, let me know, and I'll be happy to contribute more.

Groeten, en veel succes met deze klus,

Anna

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