RESEARCH!

Development Story

Speak With Purpose Extended Post-Mortem (Development Story)

 

Past ETC Projects

• Sonology

• Celestia – Sound Pitch

• Kotodama (just Kotodama)

• Beyond Interactions – Sound Pitch

• Interactive Theater Initiative

• Dynactiv

• Crime Scene Innovation

CMU Lectures/Projects/Groups/People

• 15-492 Special Topic: Speech Processing

• Speech at CMU

• Project LISTEN A Reading Tutor that Listens

Speech Recognition Applications/Academic Projects

• EmoEmma: Emotional Speech Input for Interactive Storytelling

• Interacting with Virtual Characters in Interactive Storytelling

• Microsoft Research on Natural Language Processing

• Project Milo (Jesse talks about this in his GDC talk, too)

• Siri Context Handling

Linguistic Fun

• Homophone –  a word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning and spelling. (tale -> tail)

• Homonym – a word that sounds the same as another and has the same spelling but a different meaning. (bank of a river, bank account)

Platforms/SDK

• Unity Word Recognition – on Unity Asset Store for $30.00

• Google Android has speech recognition API – example

• Dragon SDK- Nuance speech recognition for Windows Apps

• Pocketsphinx – open source toolkit for speech recognition (also developed by CMU!)

• OpenEars – framework for speech recognition and speech synthesis on iOS apps

• http://www.cleverscript.com/ – cleverbot is a text based conversational AI. they finally have an API.

• http://nltk.org/ – Natural Language toolkit for python

• http://blog.mashape.com/post/48946187179/15-natural-language-processing-apis – so there’s that. there are a lot of these things, which is good for us, because they seem specialized (ie one parses a sentence to a “root” keyword, etc.)

• Microsoft SRE Documentation

• Google HTML5 Web API (http://chrome.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/hello-browser.html)