testing simon

Let’s take a look at this file (ISO-8859-1):

  <word>
   <name>Abbrechen</name>
   <pronunciation>gls a p b R E C @ n</pronunciation>
   <terminal>SimpelKommando</terminal>
  </word>
  <word>
   <name>Acht</name>
   <pronunciation>a x t</pronunciation>
   <terminal>Nummer</terminal>
  </word>

Obviously, simon does now import the glottal stop. The word Abbrechen is with glottal stop. The word Acht is without glottal stop. More info:

Introduced the “gls” phoneme for a glotal stop (“?” in SAMPA).

Great. This should improve the recognition rate when you use Ralf's German dictionary for training. As far as I know, the German BOMP dictionary does have glottal stops, too.

The glottal stop is a difficult phoneme. I think that it is a good decision if simon supports the glottal stop.

The abbreviation gls is better than kn.

Additional thought: Maybe it is possible to develop a simon scenario (XML file) with an .xsl style-sheet? You all know that I am primarily interested in dictation, so a simon scenario with let’s say 1.000 German words would be an interesting start. This should be possible, but I don’t want to invest too much time. So I am looking for a way to get quick results.

My dream is an XML-based framework:
- SSML prompts that link to FLAC audio files;
- Ralf's German dictionary (PLS);
- an .xsl style-sheet that accesses e.g. 99 SSML prompts for training (source file), and that chooses the corresponding words from the PLS dictionary (source file);
- the object file could be a simon scenario.

The command in the Ubuntu terminal would look as follows:

$ saxonb-xslt -ext:on -s:'http://script.blau.in/german/35/prompts.xml' -xsl:'create-simon-scenario.xsl' -o:simon-scenario.xml

What do you think? It is possible to access files that are located in the Internet directly from the Ubuntu terminal, and process them.

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