I have just recorded a Screencast. This Screencast shows the following steps in the process of creating/submitting prompts in the German language to the VoxForge project. In detail:
- taking a look at the prompts.txt file using Notepad++,
- transcribing several wav files using Dragon NaturallySpeaking into text,
- comparing the transcribed text with the corresponding line in the prompts.txt file,
- encoding 99 wav files into the FLAC format using FLAC front-end. This step reduces the file size from one hundred percent to about forty percent.
- copy and paste the content of the files “readme.txt”, “prompts.txt” and “license-english.txt” from the Notepad++ into the Web form of VoxForge speech submission system,
- creating a zip archive using 7-Zip,
- and finally submitting the whole zip archive from the personal desktop to the VoxForge website.
Download the screencast (about 12 megabytes). This Screencast contains some explanations. It is not perfect, but you should get an impression what to do, if you want to contribute your speech to the VoxForge project.
You can see that it is not very easy to create those prompts. But it is not impossible. There are just a lot of steps that have to be done. And we are using very powerful tools to create the prompts.
Tags: FLAC, German, GPL, prompts, Screencast, transcribing, VoxForge