Re: compare two voices (Jeremy Bowers)

2005-05-02 Thread Jeremy Bowers
On Mon, 02 May 2005 16:37:19 -0500, phil wrote: > I will defend one statement though. I have yet to see anything which > Python would not make a good wrapper for. Some of the OpenGL pygame stuff > is very cool. Alright, you got me :-) I got excessively broad. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

compare two voices (Jeremy Bowers)

2005-05-02 Thread phil
>>I am gonna step way out of my mathematical depth here >> > > I mean no disrespect, but this is the last accurate statement you made. > You are probably correct, I am certainly out of my field and hope that noone would embark on a hopeless project based on my few words. However, the school di

Re: compare two voices

2005-05-02 Thread Jeremy Bowers
On Mon, 02 May 2005 13:58:07 -0500, phil wrote: > You didn't indicate how deep you want to get into the code yourself. > > I am gonna step way out of my mathematical depth here I mean no disrespect, but this is the last accurate statement you made. I wouldn't say this, except that if the origin

compare two voices

2005-05-02 Thread phil
You didn't indicate how deep you want to get into the code yourself. I am gonna step way out of my mathematical depth here and say this should not be too difficult in python. 1. you need to know the format of .wav surely it is a set of frequency amplitude pairs. 2. you need to know the samplin

Re: compare two voices

2005-05-01 Thread M.E.Farmer
Qiangning Hong wrote: > I want to make an app to help students study foreign language. I want > the following function in it: > > The student reads a piece of text to the microphone. The software > records it and compares it to the wave-file pre-recorded by the > teacher, and gives out a score to

Re: compare two voices

2005-05-01 Thread Robert Oschler
"Qiangning Hong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I want to make an app to help students study foreign language. I want > the following function in it: > > The student reads a piece of text to the microphone. The software > records it and compares it to the wave-file

Re: compare two voices

2005-05-01 Thread François Pinard
[Qiangning Hong] > I just want to compare two sound WAVE file, not what the students or > the teacher really saying. For example, if the teacher recorded his > "standard" pronouncation of "god", then the student saying "good" will > get a higher score than the student saying "evil" because "

Re: compare two voices

2005-05-01 Thread Kent Johnson
Qiangning Hong wrote: I want to make an app to help students study foreign language. I want the following function in it: The student reads a piece of text to the microphone. The software records it and compares it to the wave-file pre-recorded by the teacher, and gives out a score to indicate the

Re: compare two voices

2005-05-01 Thread Andrew Dalke
> Jeremy Bowers wrote: >> No matter how you slice it, this is not a Python problem, this is an >> intense voice recognition algorithm problem that would make a good >> PhD thesis. Qiangning Hong wrote: > No, my goal is nothing relative to voice recognition. Sorry that I > haven't described my que

Re: compare two voices

2005-04-30 Thread Qiangning Hong
Jeremy Bowers wrote: > No matter how you slice it, this is not a Python problem, this is an > intense voice recognition algorithm problem that would make a good > PhD thesis. No, my goal is nothing relative to voice recognition. Sorry that I haven't described my question clearly. We are not teac

Re: compare two voices

2005-04-30 Thread Jeremy Bowers
pre-recorded by the teacher, and gives > out a score to indicate the similarity between them. > > This function will help the students pronounce properly, I think. Do you have any idea what it takes to compare two voices in a *meaningful* fashion? This is a serious question. I can't

compare two voices

2005-04-30 Thread Qiangning Hong
I want to make an app to help students study foreign language. I want the following function in it: The student reads a piece of text to the microphone. The software records it and compares it to the wave-file pre-recorded by the teacher, and gives out a score to indicate the similarity between t