From: Bill Schottstaedt <bil@...>
Date: 2001-11-18T23:08:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25752] Re: sound editor + ruby

Robert Feldt wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
>
> > I recently added Ruby as an embedded language in my sound editor
> > Snd, available at
> >
> > ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/Lisp/snd-5.tar.gz
> > http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/snd/
> >
> > The underlying library of sound/audio stuff (sndlib) could be used
> > as a Ruby module, I assume, but I haven't tried that.  This is all
> > brand-new, still has gaps, etc.
> >
> This is really cool Bill, thanks!
>
> I'd really encourage you to go ahead (maybe with SWIG?) and make the
> underlying sndlib accessible from Ruby. Ruby's audio support has been
> lacking for far to long now. A year or so back I had plans for some basic
> stuff to be able to do speech recognition stuff from Ruby. However,
> other projects take my time. Do you know the state of the art in that
> area? Are there some free stuff we can add as extensions?
>
> Speech synthesis and recognition is something I'm really waiting for to
> happen in the computer industry. Would be lovely if one could play with
> it from Ruby.
>
> Regards,
>
> /Robert Feldt

I think sndlib should work as a Ruby extension already -- the
"sndlib2xen" stuff
ought to work, though I've been working on other things and haven't poked at
it.
I'll check it out, and expand the (currently very sketchy) documentation.

I don't know the state of the art in speech recognition, but I'm sure there
are open
source or freeware projects in that area.